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Standard work on classic stage illusions performed by Robert-Houdin, Bautier de Kolta, Maskelyne and others. Detailed descriptions of techniques of fire eaters, sword swallowers, jugglers, acrobats, etc. Also ancient magic, automatons, magic photography, much more. Over 400 exceptional illustrations. Introduction. Bibliography.

• Introduction
• The Mysteries Of Modern Magic
• Ancient Magic
• Division of Magic
• Cagliostro
• Robertson
• Comte de Grisi
• Robert Houdin
• Carl Herrmann
• Signor Blitz
• Robert Heller
• Alexander Herrmann
• Bautier de Kolta
• Harry Kellar
• Conjurers' Tricks And Stage Illusions
• Mysterious Disappearances
• Vanity Fair
• After the Flood
• The Magic Palanquin
• Cassadag Propaganda
• The Appearing Lady
• The Disappearing Lady
• The Mysterious Trunk
• The Indian Basket Trick
• Decapitation
• Spiritualistic Ties
• Optical Tricks
• The Cabaret du Neant
• The Three-Headed Woman
• Amphitrite
• The Mystery of Dr. Lynn
• Black Art
• The Talking Head
• The Living Half-Woman
• She
• The Queen of Flowers
• The Decapitated Princess
• Stella
• Houdin's Magic Cabinet
• A Mystic Maze
• Platinized Glass
• Statue giving a Double Image
• Miscellaneous State Tricks
• Trilby
• The Haunted Swing
• The Scurimobile
• The Neoöccultism
• The Mask of Balsamo
• The Invisible Woman
• Magic Harps
• Conjuring Tricks
• Trick with an Egg and a Handkerchief
• The Cone of Flowers
• The Magic Rosebush
• Magic Flowers
• The Birth of Flowers
• Tricks with a Hat
• A Cake Baked in a Hat
• The Egg and Hat Trick
• Multiplication of Coins
• Magic Coins
• The Dissolving Coin
• The Spirit Slates
• Second Sight
• Magic Cabinets
• The Traveling Bottle and Glass
• Disappearance of an Apple and a Ninepin
• A Goblet of Ink Converted into an Aquarium
• The Invisible Journey of a Glass of Wine
• The Wine Changed to Water
• The Animated Mouse
• The Sand Frame Trick
• Houdin's Magic Ball
• Jugglers And Acrobatic Performances
• Jugglers
• The Leamy Revolving Trapeze
• Walking on the Ceiling Head Down
• The Mysterious Ball
• Fire Eaters And Sword Tricks
• "Fire Eaters, Tricks with Fire"
• A Stab through the Abdomen
• The Human Target
• Sword Swallowers
• Sword Walkers
• Dancers on Glass
• Ventriloquism And Animated Puppets
• Shadowgraphy
• Shadowgraphy
• French Shadows
• Mental Magic
• Robert Heller
• Second Sight
• The Baldwins and Second Sight
• Silent Through Transference
• Ancient Magic
• Temple Tricks Of The Greeks
• Puppet Shows among the Greeks
• The Shrine of Bacchus
• The First Automobile Vehicle
• The Statue of Cybele
• Marvelous Altars
• The Machinery of the Temples
• Sounding of Trumpets when a Door was Opened
• Opening and Closing Doors when a Fire was Lighted on the Altar
• Invention in 1889 A.D. vs. Invention B.C
• An Egyptian Lustral Water Vessel
• Miraculous Vessels Of The Greeks
• The Dicaiometer
• Miraculous Vessels
• Magical Pitchers
• Apparatus for Permitting the Mixing of Wine and Water in Definite Proportions
• The Magical Bottle
• Ancient Organs
• The Origin Of The Steam Engine
• The Eolipile of Heron
• Heron's Marvelous Altar
• Heron's Tubular Boiler
• "Greek Lamps, Toys, Etc."
• Perpetual Lamps
• An Ancient Automaton
• A Greek Toy
• The Decapitated Drinking Horse
• Odometers
• Science In The Theater
• Behind the Scenes of an Opera House
• The Ordinary Stage
• The English Stage
• The Stage Floor
• The Cellars
• The Flies
• The Gridiron
• Traps
• Sliders
• Bridges
• The Metropolitan Opera House Stage
• Wing Posts
• Curtain Calls
• The Electric Lighting
• Paint Bridge
• The Property Man
• Striking a Scene
• The Dressing-Rooms
• The Production of a New Opera
• "Some Remarkable Stages, Ancient And Modern"
• An Electric Curtain
• The Fan-Drop Curtain
• An Elevator Theater Stage
• Some Remarkable American Stage Inventions
• A Revolving Stage
• The Asphaleia Stage
• A Theater with Two Auditoriums
• Curio's Pivoted Theater
• The Olympian Theater of Palladio at Vicenza
• Stage Effects
• Scene Painting
• Sunrise Effect
• Sun Effect
• Change from Day to Night
• Stars
• Moon Effects
• Rainbow Effect
• Wind Effect
• Thunder Effect
• Lightning
• Snow Effect
• Wave Effect
• Crash Effect
• Rain Effect
• Gradual Transformation
• Fire and Smoke Effect
• Battle Scenes
• Theatrical Firearms
• The Imitation of Odors
• Theater Secrets
• Traps
• The Swan in Loghengrin
• The Floating Rhine Daughters in Rehingold
• The Sun Robe
• The Ship on the Stage
• Miscellaneous Stage Effects
• The Destruction of the Temple of Dagon
• The Horse Race on the Stage
• The Effects in Siegfreid
• Siegfried's Forge
• Siegfried's Anvil
• The Dragon Fafner
• Wotan's Spear
• The Bed of Tulips and the Electric Firefly
• The Electric Torch and Electric Jewels
• An Electrical Duel
• The Skirt Dance
• The Nautical Arena
• A Trip To The Moon
• Cycloramas
• The Electric Cyclorama
• The Painted Cyclorama
• Fireworks With Dramatic Accessories
• Automata And Curious Toys
• Automata
• Automaton Chess Players
• The Automation Chess Player
• A Curious Automaton
• Electric Tachyscope
• "Apparatus for Projecting Moving Pictures by the Dmeny, Jenkins, Lumière, and Other Forms of Apparatus"
• The Kinetoscope Stereopticon
• "The Mutoscope and the Mutograph, with Illustrations of Moving Objects"
• Cinematograph Camera
• Camera for Ribbon Photography
• The Micromotoscope
• Appendix: Additional Tricks
• The Magic Table
• Gone
• The Spider and the Fly
• The Trunk Trick
• La Strobeika Persane
• Metempsychosis
• Bibliography Of Works On Natural Magic
• Index