The Modern Conjurer
and Drawing Room Entertainer
By
C. Lang Neil
1903
Preface
Introduction
The Principles of Natural
Magic
Manner and Gesture
The Conjurer’s
Clothes
The Wand
The Table
Sleights used in Card
Conjuring
The Two-Handed Pass.
The One-Hand Pass.
The Palm
To Palm Cards from Bottom of Pack.
Continuous Back and Front Palm
False Shuffle.
To Force Cards.
The Change.
Dealing Seconds.
Dealing Seconds from Bottom
To Change Front Card.
Simple Card Tricks
Telling Cards Cut by Audience.
Catching a Chosen Card in the Air.
Novel Discovery of a Chosen Card.
Shaking Chosen Card through Hank.
Advanced Card Tricks
Manipulations with Cards.
Passing Twelve Cards Up Sleeve.
The Diminishing Cards.
Back Palm and Recovery of 4 Cards.
Discovering a Card Blindfolded.
The Three-Card Trick (New Method).
The Rising Cards.
The “Thurston” Rising Cards.
The Four-Ace Trick.
Passing Cards from Pocket to Pocket.
Sleights used in Coin
Tricks
To Palm.
To Pass.
The Continuous Back and Front Palm.
The French Drop.
To Change a Coin.
Tricks with Coins
Coin through Handkerchief.
The Cap and Pence.
Vanish of Coin Wrapped in Paper.
10 Coins from Left Hand to Glass in Right.
The Aerial Mint.
Tricks with Balls
The Cups and Balls
The Billiard-Ball Trick.
Handkerchief Tricks
Production of Hen’s Eggs from a
Handkerchief.
The Sun and Moon Trick.
The Handkerchiefs and Soup Plate.
Handkerchief, Watch, and Glass.
The Changing Handkerchiefs.
Mysteriously-Joined Handkerchiefs.
Miscellaneous Magic
The Chinese Rings.
Coin, Card, and Paper.
The Mutilated Parasol.
The Flag Trick.
The Ring on Stick.
The Flower Trick.
The Tambourine Trick.
Parlour Tricks and Puzzles
Two Corks.
Suspended Knife.
Safety Reading Lamp.
To Balance Plate on Needle.
Bottle Cannon.
Shark in Fish-Pond.
Novel Soup Tureen Stand.
Simple Handkerchief Trick.
Dodge with a Sixpence.
Experiment with Corks.
Pins into Glass Full of Water.
Magnetised Paper.
A Simple Coin Trick.
To pick up Floating Ball.
Home-Made Cinematograph.
Egg and Bottle Trick.
Wine Glass Puzzle.
Passing Body through Playing Card.
Perpetual Motion.
Housekeeper’s Weighing-Machine.
A Dangerous Trick.
Atmospheric Pressure.
To Lift Three Matches with One.
Cup of Tea on Knife.
To Balance a Pencil.
Brute Force Useless.
New Umbrella Stand.
Electricity on the Spot.
“Try Your Lung Power.”
A Cheap Sprayer.
Cardboard Figures blow out and Lights Candle.
Superior to the Spirit Level
Objects suspended without Support.
To Lift Four Straws with a Fifth.
A Ludicrous Experiment.
A Similar Feat.
Burnt Thread.
Dancing Bubbles.
Boring Hole through Halfpenny.
How Water Deceives.
Novel Way to Slice a Pear.
Japanese Ball Trick.
Magnetised Marionettes.
Bridge of Matches.
To Empty a Glass of Water with Bottle.
To Bore a Hole through a Pin.
Egg Spinning.
Suspending a Glass of Water.
A Scissors Puzzle.
The Travelling Egg.
Plate-Spinning.
Chapeaugraphy.
Paper Folding.
Shadowgraphy.
Postlude.
Books on Conjuring and
Kindred Arts.