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The Complete Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities
| The Complete Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities | |
| Author | Edwin Dawes |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Peter Scarlett Magic |
| Publication Date | 2005 |
| Language | English |
The Complete Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities is an electronic compilation, improvements and expanded versions of Edwin Dawes' column "A Rich Cabinet of Curiosities" originally published in the Magic Circular from 1972 until 2005.
An Ebook compilation was published in 2005 by Peter Scarlett Magic.
Contents
The first 200 entries:
1 A Dream Of Wealth (Chung Ling Soo)
2 Conjuring For Churchill
3 The Great Mirror Of Folly
5 Shine On Harvest Moon: The Story Of Jack Norworth & Nora Bayes
6 The Great Gun Trick (John Henry Anderson)
7 More Houdiniana
8 Leslie Lambert – The Enigma
9 J.N. Maskelyne And 'A Message From Mars'
11 The Philadelphia and Lichtenberg affair
12 Lichtenberg And Nevil Maskelyne
13 The Cardini Playing Cards
14 Winstanley's Wonders
15 Winstanley's Playing Cards And 'Waterworks'
16 Winstanley's Curious Barrel
17 "I've Got Him On My List" (WS. Gilbert)
18 John Henry Anderson And The Pale Green Bonnet
19 The Electric & Great Cyclogeotic Retro reminiscent Clairvoyant Telegraph Company
20 Laughing Gas - First Whiff
21 Laughing Gas - Second Whiff
22 Laughing Gas - Yankee Whiff
23 Miss Louise Anderson
24 Decent Exposure - Houdini Style!
25 Wonders, Wonders, Wonders - Katterfelto, Graham & Denton
26 Mr. Joseph Jacobs, The Wizard Of All Wizards, And Mr. I.K. Brunel, The Wizard of All Engineers
27 Kia Khan Khruse and The Bullet Catch
28 Mr. Love, The Ventriloquist and Polyphonist
29 Mons. D'Auvigney
30 Mr. WS. Woodin - Single-Handed Entertainer
31 Carl Hertz And Stroubeika
32 Leslie Lambert Again
33 The Mystery(?) of "She"
34 "Spirit Mediums Exposed" – By The White Mahatma (Samri Baldwin)
35 The Butterfly Coterie (Samri Baldwin)
36 The White Mahatma Exposed (Samri Baldwin)
37 The End Of Mahatma Land (Samri Baldwin)
38 Who Was Li Sing Foo?
39 Sax Rohmer, Fu-Manchu And Houdini
40 The Engravings Of William Hogarth
41 The Conjuring Aeronauts: Etienne-Gaspard Robertson
42 The Conjuring Aeronauts: The Mystery Of Garnerin
43 The Conjuring Aeronauts: From Pinetti To Tissandier
44 The Conjuring Aeronauts: The Spencers
45 The Indian Jugglers
46 The Indian Jugglers And Their Tricks
47 Michael Hartz And Le Chapeau Du Diable
48 Read All About It - The Magical Newspaper
49 Hercat, The Author
50 The Miniatures
51 The Camel Exposures - Magicians Take The Hump!
52 Diarists And Others
53 Edmund Wilson - Man Of Letters And Legerdemain
54 The Rabbit On The Wall
55 The Literature Of Hand Shadows
56 The Shadowgraphists
57 Flights Of Magic And The Road To En-Dor (Group Captain Cedric W. Hill)
58 Arabian Nights Enchantment, The Oriental Fantasy Of Emerson And Jayne
59 The Family De Vere
60 Philip Astley, Equestrian And Conjurer
61 Light And Shadows On Philip Astley
62 Isaac Fawkes - Fame And Fable
63 The Great Disaster At Sunderland
64 The Sunderland Disaster (continued)
65 Fame Is The Spurr (Mel B. Spurr)
66 Charles Lang Neil And The Modern Conjurer
67 Mademoiselle Patrice - Lang Neil's Vanishing Lady
68 Charles Bertram, The Holy Land Exhibition And The Neils
69 Dr. Francis G. Benedict, Physiologist And Magician
70 Enriching The Cabinet (Sunderland Disaster And Mel B. Spurr)
71 Thomas Britton – The Book Collector who was Frightened to Death by a Ventriloquist
72 Thewlis - Handcuff King, Graphologist And Geriatrician
73 Edward l. Blanchard's Ten Terrible Minutes
74 Edward Blanchard And William S. Woodin - Start Of A Fertile Friendship
75 Blanchard, Woodin's Olio Of Oddities And The Polygraphic Hall
76 Woodin's Cabinet Of Curiosities
77 Conjuring In The Diaries Of E.L. Blanchard: 1850-59
78 The Diaries Of E.l. Blanchard: 1860-1889
79 Edward Blanchard And The Spirit Rappers
80 When Amac Was An Undesirable Citizen In A 'Find The Gentleman' Routine
81 The Mysterious Fate Of Brunel's Half-Sovereign
82 Ingleby And The Christina Collins Murder Case
83 Leotard Bosco, Conjurer And Entrepreneur
84 Piracy, Plagiarism And Mr. Joseph Bland
85 Claude Chandler And The "Memphis" Magical Course
86 Vonetta – Mistress Of Mystery Part One
87 Vonetta – Mistress Of Mystery Part Two
88 "Houdini Upside Down" – A Unique Performance
89 The Destruction Of The Wizard Of The North's City Theatre In Glasgow
90 Henry Novra – A Nineteenth Century Magic Dealer Among The Spirits
91 Cavaliere Antonio Poletti – The Italian Conjurer From Vicenza
92 G.W.S. Piesse And His Chymical Magic
93 A Basonful Of Chung Ling Soo (Fred Bason)
94 Going, Going, Gone! – The Effects Of Professor Jacobs
95 Robert Hellis And His Magical Athenaeum
96 Mr. Charles And The Tale Of A Hat
97 Buatiers Triumphal First Appearance In Britain. I. London: The Egyptian Hall, 1875
98 Buatier's Triumphal First Appearance In Britain. II. London And The Provinces, 1875-76
99 Martin Chapender – The Phenomenal Prestidigitateur
100 Martin Chapender – A Bright Star Extinguished And The Magic Circle Born
101 Max Malini And The Charles Morton Testimonial Fund Matinee
102 The Strange Case Of The Human Serpent And The Spanish Moor - Diaz, Zaid And Majarah
103 Buatier's Season in Dublin in 1877
104 Magloire The Prestigiator
105 The Demise Of Buatier De Kolta
106 The Magic Kettle Craze Of 1904
107 Magic Kettles Galore!
108 Dr. Maxim Boyd Hart - "Magic Kettle Man" And Forger
109 Whiteley's Varieties – Magic In Manchester
110 Harry Whiteley And His Friends In Magic
111 Harry Whiteley And His Magicians' Circulating Loan Library
112 Magloire The Prestigiator Revisited – Enter Miette
113 Stanley Collins - On His Majesty's Service
114 F. R. Burnette And The Gloucester Churchyard Monster
115 F. R. Burnette And The Mystic Twelve In Glasgow
116 Mademoiselle Victoria, Queen Of Magicians
117 The Lady In Question – Vernone, Verone Or Veroni – What's In A Name?
118 "The Ladder" Of Buatier De Kolta
119 Mr. William Henry "Perseverance" Cremer And Easter Eggs
120 Conjuring Tricks And Toys – The Famous Firm Of WH. Cremer Junior
121 The Mysterious Henri De Manche
122 Zovelloscopes, Films And Fanning Powder
123 "Bobby", The Only Handcuff King Dog In The World
124 "Zutka?" – The 20th Century Puzzle
125 Strike a Light! It's Matchic
126 Stanley Collins: The Bicyclist
127 Hugall Benedict – The Thanet Wizard And Bourne Magician
128 The Magical Christmas Card
129 The Other Young - A Puzzle Solved
130 Dr. Holmes, I Presume? Hugh Mackay Of Edinburgh And The Council of Nine
131 The Wizard Of The North And George Washington Wilson – Photographer to The Queen
132 Mary Toft, The Rabbit Breeder Of Godalming, And The Origin Of The Rabbit In The Hat Trick: A Critical Assessment. Part One
133 Mary Toft, The Rabbit Breeder Of Godalming, And The Origin Of The Rabbit In The Hat Trick: A Critical Assessment. Part Two
134 The Great Deville, Wizard Of The Army
135 Frantisektichy - Czechoslovakia's Magical Artist
136 Will Goldston And The Origins Of The Magicians' Club
137 Will Goldston And The Early Years Of The Magicians' Club
138 The Magicians' Club: Post World War I And In The 1920s
139 The Final Decade Of The Magicians' Club
140 The Magicians' Club Founder, Will Goldston – The Man Himself
141 Raymond Phillips and his Wireless-Controlled Airship and Orchestral Instruments
142 The Magic Master Of The Mystery Novel: John Dickson Carr
143 John Dickson Carr: Putting Magic Into Mystery
144 John Dickson Carr: History, Time-Travel And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
145 No Business Like Show Business: The Mark Raffles Story Part One
146 The Formative Years And Emergence Of Ray St. Clair: The Mark Raffles Story Part Two
147 Pickpocketing, Progeny And Poodles: The Mark Raffles Story Part Three
148 Le Chevalier Bosco Versus 'The Monster Conjuror' – An Unequal Contest
149 Conjuring For Christmas
150 Albert Chevalier, Magic And The Magic Circle
151 Magic in Motion on God's Wonderful Railway
152 Wait Until the Sun Shines, Gustavus: Some Light on Katterfelto in 'Auld Reekie'
153 Psycho At Drury Lane
154 Garnerin, The Showman Parachutist, Revisited
155 The Pleasure Is Payne Part One: White Wizard To Hypnotist
156 The Pleasure Is Payne Part Two: Mine Host Returns To Hypnotism
157 Sir Julien Cahn - The Cricketing, Conjuring Philanthropist
158 Sir Julien Cahn's Theatre At Stanford Hall
159 Crocket And Conjuring Around The World With Sir Julien Cahn
160 The Final Act: The Auction Of Sir Julien Cahn's Magical Equipment And Cricket Library
161 Professor John Henry Anderson, Impresario: The Emperor's Magicians from China
162 Re-Opening The Cabinet Again: A) John Dickson Carr And Philip Larkin; B) A Magician In Motion On The G.W.R Identified; C) Richard Payne: Bob Batey Reminisces
163 The Whole Art Of Leger-De-Main Or Hocus Pocus In Perfection – A New Discovery
164 The Wench Is Dead – Ingleby & The Christina Collins Murder Case Revisited
165 Robert-Houdin And The Sette Of Odd Volumes
166 The Mighty Midget: Wilf Huggins' Magical Legacy
167 My Goodness – My Magical Guinness!
168 The Magical Impersonators
169 More Conjuring For Christmas
170 The Mysterious Frank J. Goldsoll – Son in Law of Charles de Vere
171 Sweet Saturday Books
172 More Sweet Saturday Books
173 The Saturday Book Finale
174 Charles Oswald Williams – The Cardiff Conjurer
175 Charles Oswald Williams And His Contributions to Magic
176 Charles Oswald Williams: Business and Family
177 J.N. Maskelyne & The London General Omnibus Co: The Tribulations of an Inventor
178 J.N. Maskelyne & The London General Omnibus Co: The Times Enters The Fray
179 Annie Abbott – The Georgia Magnet: A Powerful London Attraction
180 Annie Abbott – The Georgia Magnet: The Controversy Rages
181 Annie Abbott – Explanations And An Unaccepted Challenge
182 Annie Abbott – "Demagnetization" And Return Visits To Britain
183 J.N. Maskelyne's Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Speculation
184 J.N. Maskelyne, Sir Edward Clarke And A Tangled Web of Libel
185 More Of Charles Oswald Williams: His Business And Family
186 More About J.N. Maskelyne's Grandstand Venture Of 1897
187 William J. "Big Bill" Hilliar: His Early Years In Britain
188 William J. Hilliar Makes His Debut In The United States Of America
189 William J. Hilliar: His Founding of The Sphinx And Role in The Founding of The Society of American Magicians
190 William J. Hilliar And The Novel Concept Of A Published Magicians' Scrapbook
191 William J. Hilliar: "Ostagazuzulum", Barnum And Bailey and The Billboard
192 William J. Hilliar And Carnival Days in The 1920s
193 William J. Hilliar: The Final Years
194 Frank J. Goldsoll Revisited – Charles de Vere's Con-Man Son-In-Law
195 Dr. Louis P. Hamburger And His Mysterious Finger-Tip Levitation
196 The Italian Court Conjurer Hieronymus Scotto: New Light on His Portrait in Wax
197 Alexander Adrion: Germany's Unique Philosopher-Magician
198 Magical Moments: A Ghost of The Magicians' Club, London
199 Stanley Collins in Slow Motion for Pathe Pictorial
200 The Forgotten World of Sid Macaire