The Practical Magician And Ventriloquist S Guide

This is an incredible handbook on magic tricks for entertainment at home or at social gatherings. The author explains and simplifies many of the best magic tricks and illusions for beginners. These fantastic tricks can be mastered in a few hours, and one would not need expensive resources to perform them but items that are readily available in households. These items include handkerchiefs, coins, oranges, eggs, a glass bowl, etc. In addition, the author gives friendly suggestions in between the tricks and quick tips on how to keep the audience engaged so that they don't lose interest in the middle of the act. Children can learn the art in a significantly short time through this fascinating magic book to amuse and astonish their friends, family, or neighbors. It includes manuals on famous tricks like "the dancing egg," "the walking cent," "heads or tails," etc.

The Practical Magician and Ventriloquist's Guide: A Practical Manual of Fireside Magic and Conjuring Illusions, Containing also, Complete Instructions for Acquiring & Practising the Art of Ventriloquism. Published in 1876, this book is a resource for magic tricks. It has several detailed drawings to aid in the learning of many of the tricks. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

You don't have to be interested in learning how to do magic tricks to enjoy this insight into magic acts of the late 19th century by Harry Houdini, once of the greatest magicians of all time.Tricks like "To Eat a Dish of Paper Shavings and Draw Them out of Your Mouth Like an Atlantic Cable" reference to modern (at the time) technology. It come with practical "advice" to performer, such as not to be over-anxious, dull, or creepy.An entertaining book; and you will learn definitively a trick or two!

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

My object in writing these hints on Conjuring is for the benefit of amateurs to promote lively and entertaining amusement for the home circle and social gatherings. My large experience enables me to explain and simplify many of the best tricks and illusions of the art. I present the key to many of the mystical mysteries which have puzzled and bewildered our childhood days as well as confounded us in our maturer years. The young student can in a very short time, if he be in the least of an ingenious turn, amuse and astonish his friends, neighbors and acquaintances.

My object in writing these hints on CONJURING is for the benefit of amateurs to promote lively and entertaining amusement for the home circle and social gatherings.My large experience enables me to explain and simplify many of the best tricks and illusions of the art. I present the key to many of the mystical mysteries which have puzzled and bewildered our childhood days as well as confounded us in our maturer years.The young student can in a very short time, if he be in the least of an ingenious turn, amuse and astonish his friends, neighbors and acquaintances.Preference has been given to those tricks which suggest others, the more complete and difficult performances and illusions have been passed by as being out of place; I shall not, therefore, in these elementary papers advert to those experiments which require ample resources, or a prepared stage, for exhibiting them-or which can only be displayed to advantage by consummate skill and the most adroit manipulation-but confine my remarks at present to those branches of the art to the performance of which a young amateur may aspire with prospect of success.