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The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring Being a complete hand-book of parlor magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers.

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The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring Being a complete hand-book of parlor magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers.

by George Arnold, Frank Cahill

EN·~12 hours·37 chapters

Chapters

37 total

THE MAGICIAN'S OWN BOOK, OR THE WHOLE ART OF CONJURING.

0:47

PREFACE.

4:21

INDEX.

25:26

THE YOUNG CONJUROR.

1:49:36

TRICKS WITH CARDS.

1:00:08

THE MAGIC OF CHEMISTRY.

1:20:03

AMUSEMENTS IN ELECTRICITY, GALVANISM AND MAGNETISM.

27:37

EXPERIMENTS IN GALVANISM.

7:22

EXPERIMENTS IN MAGNETISM.

14:59

THE MAGIC OF PNEUMATICS AND AËROSTATICS.

19:04

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The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring Being a complete hand-book of parlor magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers. Being a complete hand-book of parlor magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers.

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~12 hours (697K characters)

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Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Jane Robins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2019-11-14

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60687

Subjects

Magic tricks -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.Tricks -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.GV

About the authors

George Arnold

1834–1865

A 19th-century American poet and journalist, he was known for light verse, songs, and sentimental poems that reached a wide magazine audience. His best-known work, “Drifting,” helped keep his name alive long after his early death.

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Frank Cahill

Best remembered for co-authoring lively Victorian-era books of entertainment and parlor magic, this little-documented writer helped create manuals meant to amuse families and amateur performers at home.

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