NOVEL NOTIONS
ORIGINAL TRICKS, HINTS, AND SLEIGHTS
By
ROBERTSON-KEENE.
Originally Published by:
HAMLEY BROTHERS, LIMITED,
231, High Holborn, W.C.,
London 1905
THE THEORY AND PRINCIPLES
OF “MAGIC”
Deception and Perception
Misdirection
Influence
Personality
Manner
Presentation
Patter
Arrangement
Overloading
Study and Practice
HANDKERCHIEF TRICKS
The Handkerchief
To “Palm” a Handkerchief
“Changing” a Handkerchief
ORIGINAL TRICKS, SLEIGHTS, AND FAKES
Candle Fakes
Handkerchief Production
A New Bag Multum in Parvo
A Pretty Match Box Sleight
The Travelling Silk and Spirit Knots
Cylinders and Handkerchiefs
A New Method for the Colour Changing
Handkerchiefs Method
A Handkerchief Act
BALL TRICKS
The Palm
To “Palm” a Ball
“The Pass”
The “Change over Palm”
A New Ball Move
Sleights with the “Sucker” Vanish
A New “Drop” Change
A Neat Ball and Handkerchief
Combination
Vanish for" Four Balls at Finger Tips"
A Novel and Sensational Trick
TRICKS WITH CARDS—ELEMENTARY SLEIGHTS
The “Pass”
To Make the “Pass”
To Bring a Card to the Top, or vice versā
To" Palm" a Card
TRICKS AND SLEIGHTS WITH CARDS
A Changing Fake for Card
Tip for Card Manipulators
An Instantaneous “Squeeze-up”
A Clever “Impromptu” Trick
A New Continuous Palm
A New Thought-Reading Card Trick
An Old Friend with a New Face
To Cut Cards at any Number
To Bring to Top any Card called for
Rule to Find Position
Second Rule
MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS AND ILLUSIONS
To “Back-palm a Match-box”
The New Locked Boxes
A New Thimble Sleight
Vanishing Thimbles
Rice and Ink Trick (Finish to Rice Bowls)
A Good Production Act
Topsy-turvy
The Degeneration of Man Illusion
Murder Will Out!
To Paper-folders
To Ventriloquists
A Sketch for Coster Figure
Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee
A Page of “Don’ts”