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Magical Revelations
| Magical Revelations | |
 Title Page | |
| Author | Merbak |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Briton Publications Ltd. |
| Publication Date | 1941 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 71 |
Magical Revelations by Merbak (J. Albert Briggs), identified as the author of "Dinkum Magic," is self-described as "A book of exceptional magic."
Foreword
AN APPRECIATION
BY HERBERT HOLMES.
Merbak, who in private life is perhaps better known as J. Albert Briggs, is undoubtedly the outstanding figure in Australian Magic.
For more than twenty years he has been a prolific writer on magical subjects; our leading manufacturer of tricks and illusions; and a performer whose entertainments are the last word in surprise and novelty.
When I read the MSS. of this volume I did not imagine there could be so many good things left to divulge, and I am sure readers will agree with me that the title of the book is well chosen.
I have personally seen Merbak perform many of the tricks described in this book, and so completely mystifying were they, that the simple explanations are indeed a revelation. In commending the volume to the magical fraternity, I do so in the hope that it will be the forerunner of many others from his pen. For, Merbak's knowledge of Magic is so extensive, that it is like a well that never runs dry.
H.H.
Contents
- Table of Contents
PARLOUR AND POCKET TRICKS.
- The Annihilated Glass
- The Best Torn and Restored Newspaper
- The Floating and Vanishing Glass
- The Needle Through the Thumb
- The Card and Crystal
- Marvellous Divination
- The Card and Ribbon
- Swallowing Razor Blades
- The Pierced Cigarette
- Cutting a Capstan in Two
STAGE TRICKS.
- The Jewel
- Blowing Silks Through the Dye Tube
- "Cherchez La Femme"
- The "Master" Four-Ace Trick
- A Chop Suey Nightmare
- Babes in the Wood
- The Bathing Belle
- The Alarming Case
- The Dante Rope Trick
- The Watch Du Diable
- Production of a Giant Clock
- Where Did That One Go?
- A Comedy With the Egg Bag
- Dante's Ropes and Silks
- "Merbak's" Trays and Silks
- The Japanese Mask
- A New Flower Growing
- Resurrection
- Sympathetic Silks
- The Five of Diamonds
ILLUSIONS.
- "Mirax," the Ghost Picture
- The Floating Ball
- The Million Dollar Mystery
- The Girl and the Ladder
- Cheating the Hangman
- Secrets of the Great Rifle Act
- Walking from a Shadow
- The Merry Widow
- The Show of Hands
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