Book excerpt: Table of Contents How to Balance Glass on Playing Card How 'Spirit Trick' Is Performed With Names Written in Squares How to Transfer a Coin From One Hand to Another How to Tell Card Taken From Pack by Trick 'Spirit Writing* How to Dip Hand Into Water and Take It Out Dry Trouble to Spin an Egg Magician Lindhorst's Method How to Remove Dime Under Glass Without Touching Either Magician Tells How to Hang Hat on Wall Without Nail or Hook How to Invert Glass of Water Without Spilling It How to Tell in Which Hand Coin Is Concealed How to Fill Glass Twice Without Emptying First Contents Tells How to Blow Candle Out Through Bottle Here's How You Can Add Five Matches to Six and Make Nine Magician Tells How to Change Pack of Cards from Black to Red Trick of Unsmashable Match Box Trick of Swallowing a Knife Magician Tells How Ringand Cord Trick Is Worked Three Matches Can Be Lifted With One How to Make a Dime Disappear How You Can Smoke a Pipe Without Lighting It Magician Tells How to Grasp Two Corks Between Fingers How to Make an Ace Disappear in Deck Taking a Coin from Under a Hat Without Touching Hat—Yourself Magician Explains How to Change Playing Card Into Box of Matches How to Balance Two Coins Between Your Fingers Rubber Sponge Used to Perform Magic in Hand of Spectator Tells How to Find a Selected Card in a Pack Magician Breaks Stick Held Up By Paper Suspended on Knives Clever Trick Performed With Ordinary Ruler How to Get Water Into Glass When It Is Held Upside Down Walking Hair Pin Trick Is Done With Knife and Quiver of Hand Magician Makes a Cane Dance Apparently Without Support How to Pick Up Five Bricks With One Hand Explained by Magician Paper Placed Over Board Defies Attempt to Move It With Blow How to Write Spectator's Initial on Cube and Then Make Letter Appear in How To Make Needle Float in Glass of Water Tiny Card Standing on Edge Defies Effort to Blow It Over Tells How to Make a Boomerang Circle Room and Land at the Feet The Magic Egg, a Clever Trick How to Light Candle Without Touching Flame to Its Wick How to Knock a Card Through Table How to Get a Loose Cork Out of Bottle Without Touching Either How to Break Pencil With Dollar Bill Did You Know That a Child Can Step Through a Playing Card? Thread Supporting a Ring Can Be Burned but Still Hold It Suspended Mysterious No. 3 Almost Always Chosen From List Marked 1,2,3, 4 How to Fill a Tobacco Can Twice Without Emptying First Contents Card Can Be Taken From Under Quarter Without Moving the Coin It's Easy to Make a Dime on Plate Vanish, Then Find It Underneath How to Place Spoon in a Glass Without Touching Either Foretelling the Ending Numbers in a Domino Game Is Simple Trick How to Perform Trick of the Mesmerized Ring Much more...