Lessons in Volume 5
| Lesson # - Page # | Brief Description | Category 1 | Category 2 | Inventor |
| Unique Magic | ||||
| Lesson-59-13 | Unique Magic | |||
| Lesson-59-13 | Harrison's Knife Through Coat (actually goes through!) | Harrison | ||
| Lesson-59-22 | Frank Kelly's I Dood It: Torn and Restored napkin with comedy ending | Frank Kelly | ||
| Lesson-59-27 | Hindu Yarn Mystery: Yarn torn to pieces and restored | |||
| Lesson-59-30 | Mora's Traveling Marbles: Marbles travel 1 at a time from hat to hat | Silent Mora | ||
| Lesson-59-35 | Buckley's Milk and Silk Tranposition: One glass with silk placed in hat, other glass of milk wrapped in paper. They change places. Liquid | Arthur Buckley | ||
| Lesson-59-37 | Edwin Tabor's Fourth Dimension Silks: Two different colored silks are tied together and pulled apart | Silks | Edwin Tabor | |
| Lesson-59-40 | Gene Tarbell's Pull Apart Silks: As above | Silks | Gene Tarbell | |
| Lesson-59-43 | Penetra Silk: Silk disappears from glass to appear in clear box (uses commercial Crystal Casket) | Silks | ||
| Lesson-59-47 | Blackledge Card and Cigarette Change: Selected card has corner torn off and is rolled up like a cigarette. It changes into a cigarette, and the card is found in a cigarette case previously examined and now held by the spectator | J. Elder Blackledge | ||
| Lesson-59-52 | Martin Gardner's Pop Up Cigarette: Cigarette is covered by handkerchief and suddenly pops through it | Martin Gardner | ||
| Lesson-59-53 | Martin Gardner's Immovable Cigarette: Cigarette held through cloth. Cloth removed, cigarette stays | Martin Gardner | ||
| Lesson-59-56 | Bob Ellis' Thimble Production: One thimble produced, hands shown, suddenly 4 thimbles are shown | Bob Ellis | ||
| Lesson-59-57 | Ed Reno's Ink to Water: Glass if ink shown, card dipped in and colored, ink changes to silk | Liquid | Ed Reno | |
| Lesson-59-60 | Audley Walsh's King of Nite Clubs: 3 Cards rise, one turns out with Al Jolson cutout | Cards | Audley Walsh | |
| More Unique Mysteries | ||||
| Lesson-60-66 | More Unique Mysteries | |||
| Lesson-60-66 | Audley Dunham's Vanishing Coins: Coins tossed into glass vanish | Coins | Audley Dunham | |
| Lesson-60-67 | Dunham's Floating Ping Pong Ball | Audley Dunham | ||
| Lesson-60-69 | Rufus Steele's A Flower For You: Cards are selected and returned. Three flowers are presented to the spectators, each with the selected card attached. | Rufus Steele | ||
| Lesson-60-72 | Ed Reno's Watch and Geranium: Borrowed watch vanishes from newspaper, appears in roots of potted plant | Ed Reno | ||
| Lesson-60-75 | Watch the Lemon: Lemon transfer from glass to glass apparently fails, until it is found that the lemon is empty and the contents have transferred | Bert Douglas | ||
| Lesson-60-78 | Popping Corn In a Hat: Raw corn placed in hat, candle held under, popcorn pops out | |||
| Lesson-60-83 | Tarbell's Quick Popper: As above, with wastebasket | Harlan Tarbell | ||
| Lesson-60-84 | Gardner's Card through the Handkerchief | Cards | Martin Gardner | |
| Lesson-60-86 | Carmen Damico's Toss Over Card: Card placed on table, two others reversed and placed in the deck. Card on table vanishes as it is tossed at the deck, and is found between the reversed cards | Cards | Carmen Damico | |
| Lesson-60-89 | Stanley Jak's Good Luck Card: Selected card found folded inside coin purse | Cards | Stanley Jak | |
| Lesson-60-91 | Himber's Name Cards: Card count revelation. | Cards | Richard Himber | |
| Lesson-60-93 | Leon Maguire's Newspaper Card Holder: Holder, stack, and servante ideas | Cards | Leon Maguire | |
| Lesson-60-96 | Karrell Fox's The Question Is...: Cards spread in question mark: the point is selected card | Cards | Karrell Fox | |
| Lesson-60-97 | Tony Lopilato's Yeast Pack: Cards spread and rise under handkerchief | Cards | Tony Lopilato | |
| Lesson-60-99 | Tony Lopilato's Sympathetic Silks | Silks | Tony Lopilato | |
| Lesson-60-102 | Tony Lopilato's Snappy Knotting Silks | Silks | Tony Lopilato | |
| Lesson-60-103 | The Quick Knot Silks | Silks | Tony Lopilato | |
| Lesson-60-104 | Gene Tarbell's Rubber Band off String: under handkerchief | Gene Tarbell | ||
| Lesson-60-106 | Wand Through the Hat: soft felt hat | |||
| Lesson-60-108 | Seymour Davis' Wand through Handkerchief: as above | Seymour Davis | ||
| Lesson-60-110 | Max Malini's Egg Bag: Discussion of Malini's bag. Comparison with Albini bag. Short ideas, but no full routine provided. | Max Malini | ||
| Four-Ace Effects | ||||
| Lesson-61-114 | Four-Ace Effects | |||
| Lesson-61-114 | Conus' Aces: 4 Aces placed face down. 4 Cards from pack switch | Cards | Conus | |
| Lesson-61-115 | Simple 4 Ace Routine: 4 aces on table, 4 others added. Aces assemble | Cards | J.N. Ponsin | |
| Lesson-61-117 | Ed Marlo's Simplex Aces: 4 Aces dealt, 4 others, Aces assemble (no palm) | Cards | Ed Marlo | |
| Lesson-61-119 | Grant's 4 Ace Routine: 4 Aces dealt, 4 others, mixed, put in pack and re-dealt. Assemble! | Cards | U.F. Grant | |
| Lesson-61-121 | Paul Rosini's Ace Transposition: 4 Aces removed from deck, appear face down in deck, tabled cards are now indifferent cards! | Cards | Paul Rosini | |
| Lesson-61-123 | Ed Marlo's Face Up Ace-embly: 4 Aces spread through deck. Assemble together | Cards | Ed Marlo | |
| Lesson-61-126 | Joe Berg's Magician Makes Good: One card selected, not revealed. Spectator points to any card, all 3 moved to top through deck and turn into Aces. | Cards | Joe Berg | |
| Lesson-61-127 | Larsen's Aces: 4 Ace of Spades shown, turn to 4 regular Aces | Cards | William Larsen | |
| Lesson-61-129 | Christopher's Red and Black Aces: Red and Black Aces transpose | Cards | Milbourne Christopher | |
| Lesson-61-131 | Chic Schoke's Hippity Hop Aces: 4 Aces transpose in the hands | Cards | Chic Schoke | |
| Lesson-61-133 | Audley Walsh's Ace Assembly: Aces distributed in pack assemble | Cards | Audley Walsh | |
| Lesson-61-134 | Barnhardt's 4 Ace Opener: 4 packets dealt, top of each is an Ace | Cards | Russell Bernhardt | |
| Lesson-61-134 | Ed Marlo's 4 Ace Opener: Indifferent cards change to 4 Aces | Cards | Ed Marlo | |
| Lesson-61-136 | Ed Marlo's General Ace Opener: Deck shuffled 4 times | Cards | Ed Marlo | |
| Lesson-61-138 | Ed Marlo's One at a Time Aces: 4 Aces dealt, 3 cards on each, Aces Assemble | Cards | Ed Marlo | |
| Lesson-61-141 | H. Adrian Smith's Penetrative Aces: Aces Penetrate newspaper in matrix | Cards | H. Adrian Smith | |
| Lesson-61-146 | Conjurer's 4 Ace Mystery: gimmicked 4 Ace Assembly | Cards | ||
| Modern Mental Mysteries | ||||
| Lesson-62-149 | Modern Mental Mysteries | |||
| Lesson-62-149 | Dai Vernon's Message in Flames: Message is burned, magician reveals | Mentalism | Dai Vernon | |
| Lesson-62-152 | Dai Vernon's Mental Prediction: center tear steal | Mentalism | Dai Vernon | |
| Lesson-62-154 | Dai Vernon's Magazine Test: Card inserted in magazine, magician describes page (force) | Mentalism | Dai Vernon | |
| Lesson-62-159 | Frank Kelly's Magazine and Picture Test: ESP cards used to pick page | Mentalism | Cards | Frank Kelly |
| Lesson-62-163 | Newmann's Super Divino Sealed Letter Test: 4 spectators write numbers on pad, a 5th number is added to them. All sealed in envelope. Magician states total and each individual number. | Mentalism | C.A. George Newmann | |
| Lesson-62-166 | Braunhuts Thought Afire: Message sealed in envelope is burned and read | Mentalism | Harold Braunhut | |
| Lesson-62-170 | Harold Braunhut's Ad-Venture: Number on slate matches number of words in advertisement | Mentalism | Harold Braunhut | |
| Lesson-62-172 | Double Envelopes: how to make various, with many ideas | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-62-179 | The Impossible Prediction: Magician write prediction, has waitress repeat: they match! | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-62-181 | Royal Telephone Test: Card picked, random number (dial phone) is dialed, person knows the card! | Mentalism | Cards | U.F. Grant |
| Lesson-62-183 | Tarbell's Bank Night: Envelopes chosen, one has $5. Magician always gets it. | Mentalism | Harlan Tarbell | |
| Lesson-62-188 | Psychic #7: Long distance reading uses code and assistant | Mentalism | Louis Tannen | |
| Lesson-62-190 | Sunshine's Stop Card Mystery: 3 cards selected and returned. Cards transferred one at a time from hat to hat, spectator says stop. Finds all 3 cards! | Mentalism | Cards | Martin Sunshine |
| Lesson-62-194 | Synthetic Sympathy: Magician and spectator choose same card | Mentalism | Ted Annemann | |
| Lesson-62-197 | Spirit Photography: Blank photo paper: card chosen, developed photo reveals card! | Mentalism | Cards | |
| Lesson-62-200 | X-Ray Cards: x-ray deck | Mentalism | Cards | |
| Hat and Coat Productions | ||||
| Lesson-63-203 | Hat and Coat Productions | |||
| Lesson-63-203 | The Master Hat: gimmicked derby hat for productions and vanishes | Rabbit | Production | Brunel White |
| Lesson-63-206 | Comedy Egg Production: routine with Master Hat | Rabbit | Production | |
| Lesson-63-210 | Master Hat Production Routine: silks from hat | Rabbit | Production | |
| Lesson-63-211 | Rabbit Productions: Rabbit pockets, suggestions for handling, and unexpected production | Rabbit | Production | |
| Lesson-63-216 | Rapid Production of Rabbit from Hat (body load) | Rabbit | Production | |
| Lesson-63-217 | Novel Production of Rabbit from Hat (table load) | Rabbit | Production | |
| Lesson-63-218 | Easy method (Chair load) | Rabbit | Production | |
| Lesson-63-219 | Silks and the Rabbit: from paper ribbon, from coat, chicken from coat, milk from gentleman's pocket | Rabbit | Production | |
| Lesson-63-225 | Changing Rabbit to Box of Candy: Brunel White gimmicked table | Rabbit | Production | Brunel White |
| Lesson-63-229 | Sausages from Boy's Coat | Rabbit | Production | |
| Oriental Magic | ||||
| Lesson-64-231 | Oriental Magic | |||
| Lesson-64-231 | Tarbell's Mysterious Firecrackers: color crackers change places | Harlan Tarbell | ||
| Lesson-64-234 | Kolar's Balloon and Silks: Silks vanish from bag, found in balloon. | Kolar | ||
| Lesson-64-236 | Chink A Ling Chinese Lantern Production: gimmicked | |||
| Lesson-64-240 | Hindu Mango Tree Growth: seed grows quickly to small mango tree | |||
| Lesson-64-244 | Tarbell's Hindu Plant Growth | Harlan Tarbell | ||
| Lesson-64-249 | Comedy Flower Growth | |||
| Original Oriental Secrets | ||||
| Lesson-65-251 | Original Oriental Secrets | |||
| Lesson-65-251 | Tarbell Orange and Die: Metamorphosis with orange and die | Harlan Tarbell | ||
| Lesson-65-254 | Chink A Chink: with Chinese weights and shell | |||
| Lesson-65-257 | Chinese Treasure Chest: tip over box | Production | ||
| Lesson-65-260 | Chinese Flash Pigeon Frame: Easel covered with paper frames, paper burst through to reveal pigeon | Doves | ||
| Lesson-65-263 | Chinese Tape Release from Leg: instant release | |||
| Lesson-65-265 | Simplex Coat and Tape Release: tape tied through coat and released | |||
| Lesson-65-269 | Japanese Multiple Tape Tie: Two assistance tied and released (walking through rope) | |||
| Lesson-65-271 | Ching Ling Foo's Master Tape Mystery: Clippo with variations | Ching Ling Foo | ||
| Lesson-65-277 | Ching Ling Foo's Royal Tape Mystery: another version, tape is examinable | Rope | Ching Ling Foo | |
| Lesson-65-280 | Chinese Burning Tapes: middles of two tapes are burned and restored | Rope | ||
| Lesson-65-282 | Hindu Turban Mystery: cut and restored turban cloth | Rope | ||
| Lesson-65-285 | Chinese Chefalo Knot: dissolving knot | Rope | ||
| Lesson-65-288 | Chinese Ring on the Tape: ring on rope | Rope | ||
| Tarbell Hindu Rope Mysteries | ||||
| Lesson-66-292 | Tarbell Hindu Rope Mysteries | |||
| Lesson-66-292 | Evolution of Great Rope Mystery: history of effect and discussion of Tarbell rope gimmicks | Rope | Harlan Tarbell | |
| Lesson-66-297 | Tarbell Hindu Rope Mystery: Cut and restored rope with many variations | Rope | Harlan Tarbell | |
| Modern Rope Magic | ||||
| Lesson-67-321 | Modern Rope Magic | |||
| Lesson-67-321 | Tony Lapilato's Rope Saver: novel cut and restored rope | Rope | Tony Lapilato | |
| Lesson-67-323 | Tony Lopilato's Knot: knots made with one hand | Rope | Tony Lapilato | |
| Lesson-67-326 | Double Knotter: instant appearance of 2 knots | Rope | Charles Roltare (Eggleston) | |
| Lesson-67-328 | Lopilato's Ring on Rope: finger ring | Rope | Tony Lapilato | |
| Lesson-67-330 | Lopilato's Book Mark: section of rope cut off as a book mark. Rest of rope is vanished. Bookmark is pulled out, and the rope is restored. | Rope | Tony Lapilato | |
| Lesson-67-332 | Tarbell Rings and Growing Rope: Rings tied on rope are removed while ends are in sight. Rope grows to many time original length. | Rope | Harlan Tarbell | |
| Lesson-67-336 | Judge Lynch's Necktie Party: necktie through neck routine | Rope | Tony Lapilato | |
| Magic of the Bambergs | ||||
| Lesson-68-340 | Magic of the Bambergs | |||
| Lesson-68-340 | Jasper and Eliaser Bamberg | |||
| Lesson-68-341 | Frogs Fish and Bowl of Water: Frogs change to fish | Liquid | Eliaser Bamberg | |
| Lesson-68-345 | David Leendert Bamberg | |||
| Lesson-68-345 | D.L. Bamberg Change over Clay Pipes: color change | David Leendert Bamberg | ||
| Lesson-68-346 | Broken and Restored Clay Pipe | David Leendert Bamberg | ||
| Lesson-68-348 | Tobias Bamberg | |||
| Lesson-68-349 | Boomerang Coins: 20-5=20 coin routine | Coins | Tobias Bamberg | |
| Lesson-68-352 | David Tobias Bamberg | |||
| Lesson-68-354 | Egg Bag: Large Scotch egg bag produces 15 eggs, and a chicken at the end! | Eggs | David Tobias Bamberg | |
| Lesson-68-362 | Theo Bamberg (Okito) | |||
| Lesson-68-364 | Okito's Tea, Milk, and Sugar Mystery: shaving turns to tea, sugar, and milk, poured into cups, and turns back to shavings. | Theo Bamberg (Okito) | ||
| Lesson-68-369 | David Bamberg (Fu Manchu) | |||
| Lesson-68-370 | Phantom Bag Escape | David Bamberg (Fu Manchu) | ||
| Magic with Bowls and Liquids | ||||
| Lesson-69-375 | Magic with Bowls and Liquids | |||
| Lesson-69-375 | Production of Large Bowl of Water | Liquids | ||
| Lesson-69-380 | Production of Stack of 4 Bowls of Water | Liquids | ||
| Lesson-69-385 | Chinese Production of 4 Bowls | Liquids | ||
| Lesson-69-387 | Production of Child | |||
| Lesson-69-387 | Modern Production of Bowl of Water on Table | Liquids | ||
| Lesson-69-390 | Vanishing Bowl of Water | Liquids | ||
| Lesson-69-392 | Chinese Production of Doves | |||
| Illusions | ||||
| Lesson-70-395 | Illusions | |||
| Lesson-70-395 | Egyptian Mummy: Mummy turns into a girl | Illusion | ||
| Publicity and Promotion | ||||
| Lesson-71-403 | Publicity and Promotion: discussion of money, schools, clubs, booking, advertising | Publicity | ||
The Tarbell Course in Magic, written and illustrated by Harlan Tarbell, edited by Bruce Elliott, is published by Louis Tannen, New York, NY, © 1954