Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs & Others

PART I.

DRAWING-ROOM MAGIC.

This derives its chief beauty from the fact that it is almost entirely dependent on pure sleight of hand, a fact which audiences are never slow to appreciate. The most familiar objects are dealt with, and are made to vanish and re-appear in unexpected places, as though they really were disembodied and reinstated. The amateur will find, after a few y...