Take any number of cards and spread them out fan-like in your hand, faces fronting the spectators. Ask one of them to s…

Take the four kings, the four queens, the four knaves, and the four tens of a pack, and ask if there be any one in the …

The cards may be easily divided into two numerical parts, even and odd: by taking a king for four points, a queen for t…

Lay out twenty cards of any kind, two by two, and request a friend to think of two in a line; that is, one of the ten s…

For this amusing trick you arrange the cards thus: Holding the pack in your hands, find all the knaves, place one of th…

Make a set of all the clubs and spades, and another set of hearts and diamonds. Shuffle well each set, and even let the…

Take four kings. Beneath the last place any two cards, which you take care to conceal. Then show the four kings and rep…

Secure a little round box, into the bottom of which a half-crown will fit exactly. Line the box with dark paper and cov…

Fit a black silk lining into a glass vessel so that it lines the sides but not the bottom. Put water in the glass and g…

Obtain some long feathers—the longer the better. Take off your coat and lay the feathers in the left sleeve with the qu…

Have a bag made of calico or similar material. Have it made double and just inside the mouth of the part you keep towar…

You will need two cardboard cases open at each end, and large enough to slip easily over the bottles; a specially const…

Take a small quantity of “Aniline Violet,” obtainable at any chemist’s, two pennyworth making about two dozen pens, and…

Take four half sheets of note-paper from any table, and then borrow four florins; these florins you place upon a table …

The trick of the dissolved half-crown may be varied. In this case the coin should be marked by the owner. Upon finding …

For this trick the young magician needs a glass, which may be either the ordinary tumbler or a wine-glass, as shown in …

The curtain rises and a young and beautiful girl, clothed in white, is introduced to the spectators as the victim who h…

How To Do Ventriloquism Ventriloquism is no more a gift than is the ability to talk or sing; it does not depend on an…

Making Stencils - How to Make Stencil Art Excerpt from the book:  Three Hundred Things A Bright Boy Can Do The use …