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The Book of Magic

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The Book of Magic: being a simple description of some good tricks and how to do them, with patter was a book for the general public written by A. Frederick Collins in Template:Book.

James Randi, in his book Conjuring says this was his first book on magic, which he found at his local library after seeing Blackstone perform.

Contents

  • I. MAGIC WITHOUT APPARATUS AND WITHOUT SKILL
  • II. MAGIC WITH APPARATUS AND WITHOUT SKILL
  • III. MAGIC WITH APPARATUS AND WITH SKILL
  • IV. MAGIC WITH SKILL ONLY
  • V. HOW TO DO MAGIC
  • VI. SECOND SIGHT EXPERIMENTS
  • VII. FEATS OF MIND READING
  • VIII. SPIRITUALISTIC TRICKS
  • IX. THE ART OF BLACK ART
  • X. SHADOWGRAPHS AND SILHOUETTES
  • XI. SOME GOOD STAGE ILLUSIONS
  • XII. HELPFUL INFORMATION
  • APPENDICES
  • DEFINITIONS OF SOME WORDS AND TERMS USED IN THIS BOOK
  • INDEX


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