More Magic

Hoffmann's sequel to Modern Magic, picking up the card, coin and apparatus tricks that had appeared since. The same clear, step-by-step teaching that made the first book the standard Victorian course in conjuring.

What’s inside

1. The magician’s wand, table and dress — the firing wand, the electric wand, servantes, a mechanical hat
2. Principles of sleight of hand applicable to card tricks — the “Charlier” pass, forcing, false shuffles, the bridge
3. Card tricks with ordinary cards, no sleight of hand — the capital Q, the spelling trick, the twenty-seven card trick
4. Card tricks with sleight of hand or prepared cards — card through a borrowed hat, the three-card trick, walking pip cards
5. The “Charlier” system of card-marking and its tricks — the mysterious pairs
6. Card tricks requiring special apparatus — the rising cards, card frames, the magic card case, the enchanted hand-mirror
7. Sleight of hand for coin tricks — the jerk-back palm, coin changes
8. Coin tricks without apparatus — coin rubbed into the elbow, the penetrative coins, a new multiplication
9. Coin tricks requiring special apparatus — coins from a lighted candle, the mysterious tumbler, the climbing coin
10. Tricks with watches and rings — the smashed watch, Taylor’s watch trick, Verbeck’s wedding-ring trick
11. Tricks with handkerchiefs — the instantaneous knot, the dissolving handkerchiefs, red, white and blue
12. Feats of divination — second sight tricks, reading blindfold, Dr. Lynn’s second sight, the thinkophone
13. Ball tricks — the billiard-ball trick, the chameleon ball, the obedient ball
14. Tricks with hats — Hartz and his hat trick, a flower-garden from a hat, the cannon-ball trick
15. Tricks with eggs — the egg that sinks or swims, eggs from a handkerchief, the climbing egg
16. Miscellaneous tricks — the bottle imp, the inexhaustible punch-bowl, the wine and water trick, the horn of plenty
17. Stage tricks — the broken mirror, the bewitched skull, the talking hand, the demon marksman, the vanishing lady

Professor Hoffmann, 1890 · George Routledge & Sons. Complete 488-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.