Latter Day Tricks

Roterberg's sequel to The Modern Wizard: the newest card, coin and parlour tricks of the 1890s, written by the Chicago dealer who sold the props for them.

What’s inside

1. Robinson’s flying handkerchiefs
2. Handkerchief tricks — soup plates and handkerchiefs, the colouring trick, chameleon handkerchiefs, Gordian knots
3. Handkerchief productions — five more methods, continued from “The Modern Wizard”
4. Vanishing, torn and restored handkerchiefs — the three coloured handkerchiefs, handkerchief and envelope, handkerchief from a card
5. Billiard ball tricks — the newest billiard ball trick, the fairy tube and ball, the glass vase and appearing balls
6. Egg tricks — handkerchief, lemon and glass; vanishing, disappearing and balanced eggs
7. Coin tricks — the vanishing coin tube; coins, hat, plate and glass; coin and sword
8. Wine and water tricks — wine instead of flowers, the flying glass of water, the bewitched decanter
9. Flower tricks — the die and flowers, the soup plate and flowers, the colour-changing rose
10. Stage novelties — the bewitched wand, the magical oil painting, the broken and mended wine glass, the writing hand
11. Robinson’s ring and potato trick
12. Paper shavings tricks — the chameleon paper shavings, paper shavings changed into bonbons
13. Hat tricks — the unlucky hat, ice cream made in a borrowed hat
14. Living wonders — the disappearing goldfish, the invisible journey of two canaries
15. Wand, cane and box tricks — the wand and flying rings, the hypnotised cane, the new nest of boxes
16. Closing tricks — the spirit envelope, the coloured sand trick, the candy bag, the floating ball of paper

A. Roterberg, 1896 · Published by the author (Chicago). Complete 120-page PDF. Free to download: check out at $0 and the file arrives by email and on your order page.

This classic is in the public domain. Scans come from library copies, so expect the odd stain or stamp of an old book.