Help us get to over 8,747 articles in 2024.

If you know of a magician not listed in MagicPedia, start a New Biography for them. Contact us at magicpediahelp@gmail.com

Difference between revisions of "Jinx Five-Foot Shelf Of Magic"

From Magicpedia, the free online encyclopedia for magicians by magicians.
Jump to: navigation, search
m
 
(7 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 6: Line 6:
 
*[[Ellis Stanyon]], "[[The Stanyon Serials]]" (1-21)
 
*[[Ellis Stanyon]], "[[The Stanyon Serials]]" (1-21)
 
*[[T. Nelson Downs]], "[[The Art of Magic]]"
 
*[[T. Nelson Downs]], "[[The Art of Magic]]"
*[[John Northern Hilliard]], "[[Greater Magic]]" (Sequel to above now being published)
+
*[[John Northern Hilliard]], "[[Greater Magic]]"
 
*[[Edwin Sachs]], "[[Sleight of Hand]]"
 
*[[Edwin Sachs]], "[[Sleight of Hand]]"
 
*[[Jasper Maskelyne]] and [[David Devant]], "[[Our Magic]]"
 
*[[Jasper Maskelyne]] and [[David Devant]], "[[Our Magic]]"
Line 27: Line 27:
 
*[[Lulu Hurst]], "[[Lulu Hurst (the Georgia Wonder) Writes Her Autobiography and for the First Time Explains and Demonstrates the Great Secret of Her Marvelous Power]]"
 
*[[Lulu Hurst]], "[[Lulu Hurst (the Georgia Wonder) Writes Her Autobiography and for the First Time Explains and Demonstrates the Great Secret of Her Marvelous Power]]"
 
*Houdini, "[[Miracle Mongers and Their Methods]]"
 
*Houdini, "[[Miracle Mongers and Their Methods]]"
*W. de Laurence, "[[Medical Hypnosis and Magnetic Hypnotism]]"
+
*[[L. W. de Laurence]], "[[Medical Hypnosis and Magnetic Hypnotism]]"
*Arthur Edward Waite, "[[The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts]]"
+
*[[Arthur Edward Waite]], "[[The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts]]"
 
*[[Arthur Prince]], "[[The Whole Art of Ventriloquism]]"
 
*[[Arthur Prince]], "[[The Whole Art of Ventriloquism]]"
 
*[[David M. Roth]], "[[Roth Memory Course]]"
 
*[[David M. Roth]], "[[Roth Memory Course]]"
Line 35: Line 35:
 
*[[Claude Alexander Conlin]], "[[The Life and Mysteries of The Celebrated Dr. Q.]]"
 
*[[Claude Alexander Conlin]], "[[The Life and Mysteries of The Celebrated Dr. Q.]]"
 
*Burling Hull, "[[How to Answer Questions for Crystal Gazing and Mind Reading Acts]]"
 
*Burling Hull, "[[How to Answer Questions for Crystal Gazing and Mind Reading Acts]]"
*[[Syril Dusenberry]], "[[Making Magic Pay]]"
+
*[[Syril Dusenbery]], "[[Making Magic Pay]]"
*Laurance Glen, "[[The Magician's Road To Fame]]"
+
*[[Laurance Glen]], "[[The Magician's Road To Fame]]"
 
*Funk and Wagnall's, "The Practical Standard Dictionary"
 
*Funk and Wagnall's, "The Practical Standard Dictionary"
 
*Globe Book Company, "Elementary Grammar"
 
*Globe Book Company, "Elementary Grammar"
  
 +
== History of the Five Foot Shelf ==
 +
Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot compiled and edited in 1909 a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature and was originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf. Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.) The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, the result is now referred to as "The Harvard Classics".<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics</ref>
  
[[Category:Lists]]
+
{{References}}
 +
 
 +
{{books}}
 +
[[Category:Classic Books]]

Latest revision as of 22:40, 11 July 2013

The Jinx Five-Foot Shelf Of Magic is Ted Annemann's list of books on the art of magic and allied subjects which he printed in his magazine Jinx No. 8 (May 1935).

He tried to cover every phase and known principle necessary to a modern performer. These were textbooks that he thought an absolute stranger to magic should buy:

History of the Five Foot Shelf

Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot compiled and edited in 1909 a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature and was originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf. Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.) The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, the result is now referred to as "The Harvard Classics".[1]

References

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics
Book Navigation
Category:Books by author Category:Books by publisher Category:Books by year
Category:Classic Books Category:Series Category:Manuscripts
Early Magic Books Bibliographies Magic themed novels