SYNOPSIS:
More Magic is Professor Hoffmann’s sequel to Modern Magic, expanding his course in Victorian conjuring with newer sleights, methods, apparatus, and complete routines. The book begins with additional advice on the magician’s wand, table, costume, servantes, and mechanical accessories before moving into a particularly extensive study of card magic. Its card chapters cover improved passes, forces, false shuffles, changes, ordinary-card effects, prepared cards, marked-card systems, and specialized apparatus such as card frames, cases, mirrors, stars, and changing boxes.
Several chapters are devoted to coin magic, progressing from sleight-of-hand techniques to impromptu effects and elaborate apparatus routines. Hoffmann also provides substantial sections on watches and rings, handkerchief magic, feats of divination, billiard-ball manipulation, productions from hats, eggs, candles, liquids, flowers, and larger theatrical effects. Among the later material are Hartz and His Hat Trick, The Inexhaustible Punchbowl, The Bewitched Skull, The Demon Marksman, and The Vanishing Lady.
The result is a broad working encyclopedia of late nineteenth-century conjuring. It documents both sleight-of-hand magic and the ingenious mechanical apparatus used in Victorian parlor and stage performances.
Book Details:
Author/Creator: Professor Hoffmann
Publisher: David Mckay
Publication Year: 1890
Subjects: Cards, Coins, Rings, Silks, Billiard Balls, Mentalism, Everyday Objects, Parlor Magic, Stage Magic
Pages: 457
Skill Level: Intermediate
Availability: Lybrary.com, Vanishing Inc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTORY (p. I)
CHAPTER I.
The Magician’s Wand, the Magician’s Table, and the Magician’s Dress.
• The Firing Wand (p. 2)
• The Electric Wand (p. 4)
• New forms of “Servante” (p. 6)
• Substitute for the “Table” (p. 6)
• A Mechanical Hat (p. 7)
CHAPTER II.
Principles of Sleight of Hand Applicable to Card Tricks.
• The “Charlier” Pass (p. 9)
• To Force a Card (New Methods) (p. 11)
• To Force Three Cards together (p. 13)
• False Shuffles (New Methods) (p. 14)
• To Change a Card—The Revolution (p. 17)
• To Spring the Cards from the one Hand to the Other (with Mechanical Pack) (p. 19)
• The Bridge (Additional Methods) (p. 21)
CHAPTER III.
Card Tricks with Ordinary Cards and not Requiring Sleight of Hand.
• Methods of Identifying a Chosen Card (p. 22)
• Any number of Packets of Cards having been formed face downwards on the Table, to discover the Total Value of the Undermost Cards. (New Method) (p. 23)
• New Numerical Trick with Cards (p. 25)
• The Capital Q (p. 27)
• To name Cards without seeing them (p. 30)
• The “Alternate Card” Trick (p. 31)
• The “Spelling” Trick (p. 31)
• The “Twenty-seven Card” Trick—To cause a Card selected by one Spectator to appear at such number in the Pack as another Spectator may indicate (p. 32)
• A Row of Cards being placed face downwards on the Table, to discover how many have during your absence been transferred from one end to the other. (Improved Method) (p. 35)
CHAPTER IV.
Tricks involving Sleight of Hand or the use of Specially Prepared Cards.
• To produce Three Cards at any position in the Pack thought of by another person (p. 38)
• A Card being freely chosen from the Pack, replaced, and the Pack shuffled, to make any given Card change to the one chosen (p. 40)
• The “Alternate Card” Trick with a Complete Pack (p. 42)
• To pass a Chosen Card through the Crown of a Borrowed Hat (p. 46)
• To change Three Cards, placed in the Pocket of a Spectator into three others previously chosen (p. 48)
• To make a Card freely drawn, and replaced in the Pack, change places with another Card on the Table (p. 49)
• To distinguish the Suit of a given Card by Weight (p. 50)
• The “Three-Card” Trick (p. 51)
• “Changing” Cards (p. 55)
• “Walking Pip” Cards (p. 56)
• The Cards passing up the Sleeve, and the Diminishing and Increasing Cards (p. 57)
CHAPTER V.
The “Charlier” System of Card-Marking, and Tricks Performed by its aid.
• The method of Marking (p. 67)
• Reading the Cards (p. 68)
• The Charlier “Dial” (p. 69)
• Method of Calculation (p. 72)
• Practical Illustrations (p. 75)
• The Mysterious Pairs (p. 84)
• To name the Article taken by each of Four Persons (p. 87)
• To name the Bottom Card of each of Three Heaps of Cards (p. 88)
CHAPTER VI.
Card Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus.
• The Rising Cards (La Houlette). (Improved Methods) (p. 91)
• To Catch a Selected Card on the End of a Walking Stick (p. 95)
• Frames of various kinds for producing Cards (p. 98)
• Field’s Card-Frame (p. 99)
• The French Card-Frame (p. 101)
• The Sand Frame (p. 102)
• The Velvet Frame and Artist’s Easel (p. 103)
• The Crystal Frame (p. 104)
• The Cabalistic Star, for the production of Cards (p. 107)
• The Velvet Cloth ” ” (p. 109)
• The Black Cloth Target (p. 111)
• The Magic Card Case (p. 115)
• The Card Drawer. (Improved) (p. 118)
• A New Changing Card-box and Tricks therewith (p. 121)
• The Magnetic Wand and Walking Card (p. 124)
• The Enchanted Hand-Mirror (p. 128)
• The Multiplying and Vanishing Cards (p. 131)
CHAPTER VII.
Methods of Sleight-of-Hand Applicable to Coin Tricks.
• The “Jerk-back” Palm (p. 139)
• Coin Changes (p. 142)
• To Extract a Coin from a Folded Paper (p. 143)
• To Wrap a Coin apparently in a Handkerchief (p. 144)
CHAPTER VIII.
Coin Tricks without Apparatus.
• To make a Coin vanish from and return to the Left Hand (p. 145)
• To rub a Coin into the Elbow (p. 146)
• To vanish Coins and reproduce them from the Elbow (p. 146)
• The Penetrative Coins (p. 147)
• Another Method (p. 149)
• A New “Multiplication” Trick (p. 154)
CHAPTER IX.
Coin Tricks requiring Special Apparatus.
• To produce Coins from a lighted Candle (p. 157)
• To pass Coins into a Bottle (p. 158)
• Multiplying Coins and Tricks therewith (p. 161)
• The eight Coins and two Brass Covers (p. 165)
• Head or Tail (p. 171)
• The Mysterious Tumbler—To pass a coin from a Glass of Water into the Centre of an Orange (p. 172)
• The Climbing Coin—A Florin made to climb up the face of a small Wooden Pillar, into a Box at top (p. 181)
CHAPTER X.
Tricks with Watches and Rings.
• A Smashed Watch (New Methods) (p. 185)
• The Improved Watch Mortar (p. 188)
• A Watch found at the root of a Flower (p. 190)
• Taylor’s Watch Trick (p. 192)
• Devono’s Watch-bag (p. 193)
• The “Lady’s Stocking” (p. 195)
• The Wandering Ring (p. 196)
• Verbeck’s Wedding-ring Trick (p. 199)
CHAPTER XI.
Tricks with Handkerchiefs.
• A Handkerchief Puzzle (p. 203)
• The Instantaneous Knot (p. 203)
• The Stretched Handkerchief (p. 206)
• To “Vanish” a Handkerchief (Sundry Methods) (p. 207)
• The Bautier “Pull” (p. 209)
• The “Bare-armed Vanish” (p. 211)
• The Dissolving Handkerchiefs (p. 214)
• The Two Decanters and the Flying Handkerchief (p. 216)
• Multiplication of Handkerchiefs (p. 218)
• Red, White, and Blue (p. 220)
• The Vanishing Pocket-handkerchief found in a Candle. (New Method) (p. 221)
• “Flash” Handkerchiefs (p. 227)
• The Revolving Candle for Handkerchief (p. 230)
• A Pack of Cards transformed into a Handkerchief (p. 231)
• A Saucepan to cook a Handkerchief (p. 233)
CHAPTER XII.
Feats of Divination.
• The Expunged Numeral (p. 237)
• To Predict the Sum of Five Rows of Figures (p. 241)
• The Magic Circle (To discover a Card or other Object touched during the Performer’s Absence) (p. 242)
• “Second Sight” Tricks (p. 243)
• Reading Blindfold (p. 250)
• Dr. Lynn’s “Second Sight” Trick (p. 251)
• The Thinkophone (p. 255)
• The Box of Numbers (p. 257)
CHAPTER XIII.
Ball Tricks.
• The Billiard-ball Trick (p. 261)
• Another Method (p. 265)
• The Chameleon Ball (p. 274)
• The Obedient Ball (Improved) (p. 279)
CHAPTER XIV.
Tricks with Hats.
• Hartz and his “Hat” Trick (p. 285)
• The Bundle of Firewood (p. 287)
• A Flower-garden from a Hat (p. 289)
• A New Folding Bouquet (p. 290)
• The Cannon-ball Trick (Improved) (p. 291)
• The Cannon-ball Globe (p. 295)
• The Paper Ribbon and the Barber’s Pole (p. 300)
• The Animated Cigar (p. 303)
• A Hat with a Hole in it (p. 306)
• The Finger through the Hat (p. 307)
• The Cork “ ” (p. 308)
• The Coin “ ” (p. 309)
• The Cigar “ ” (p. 311)
• The Wand passed through the Hat (p. 312)
• The Magnetized Hat (p. 315)
• Another Method (p. 317)
• The Smashed Hat (p. 318)
CHAPTER XV.
Tricks with Eggs.
• The Egg made to Sink or Swim at Command (p. 323)
• To Balance an Egg on a Table (p. 325)
• To Balance an Egg on the End of a Straw (p. 325)
• To Spin an Egg on End (p. 327)
• To Produce Eggs from an Empty Handkerchief (p. 327)
• Another Method (p. 330)
• “Patter” for this and a “Cake” Trick (p. 332)
• Prepared Eggs—Paper from an Egg (p. 339)
• A Barber’s Pole from an Egg (p. 340)
• To Produce Eggs from the Flame of a Candle (p. 340)
• Egg Swallowing (p. 342)
• To Pass an Egg through a Hat (p. 344)
• The Climbing Egg (p. 345)
CHAPTER XVI.
Miscellaneous Tricks.
• The Mysterious Release (p. 348)
• The Bottle Imp. (Improved) (p. 350)
• Conjurer’s Cress (p. 351)
• Candle-lighting Extraordinary (p. 355)
• The Obedient Candle (p. 358)
• Newspaper Cuttings turned into Pale Ale (p. 359)
• The Bran Plate (p. 361)
• Bran Disappearing from a Glass, and Re-appearing under a Plate (p. 362)
• The Flying Glass, Watch, and Handkerchief (p. 364)
• The Inexhaustible Punch-bowl (p. 368)
• The Coffee Trick. (Improved Method) (p. 371)
• The Wine and Water Trick. (Improved Methods) (p. 375)
• Wine or Water. (Another Method) (p. 380)
• The Wine Proof (p. 383)
• The Inexhaustible Portfolio (p. 385)
• The Horn of Plenty (p. 386)
• The Bewitched Fan (p. 388)
• A Shower of Flowers (p. 390)
• The Spiritualistic Ball, Ring and Card (p. 395)
CHAPTER XVII.
Stage Tricks.
• The New Target, for Watch and Card (p. 403)
• The Broken Mirror (p. 416)
• The Card in the Candle (p. 421)
• The Bewitched Skull (p. 424)
• The Talking Hand (p. 427)
• The Shower of Gold (p. 428)
• The Demon Marksman (p. 437)
• The Vanishing Lady (p. 448)
• L’Envoi (p. 457)
