How To Do Tricks by A. Anderson

• Card Tricks And Magic
  • Useful Rules To Follow
• Tricks With Cards
  • To Call For Any Card In The Pack
  • To Make Another Person Draw The Cards You Call For
  • To Name The Cards Of A Pack Concealed Under A Handkerchief
  • To Call The Cards Out Of The Pack
  • A New Method To Name All The Cards In Succession Without Seeing Them
  • To Discern One Or More Drawn Cards
  • The Knaves And The Constable
  • To Show A Card Now On The Top, And Now At The Bottom Of The Pack
  • The Same Trick In Another Manner
  • The Same Trick In A Still More Surprising Manner
  • The Double Confederates
  • The Card In The Pocketbook
  • Of Twenty-Five Cards Laid Tn Five Rows Upon A Table, To Name The One Touched
  • To Conjure A Certain Card Into Your Pocket
  • Of Two Rows Of Cards To Tell The One Which Has Been Touched
  • To Produce A Required Card From Your Pocket
  • A New Method To Tell A Card by Its Weight
  • To Tell Through A Wine-Glass What Cards Have Been Turned
  • The Window Trick
  • The Card Of One Color Found In A Pack Of The Other
  • To Name Several Cards Which Have Been Drawn Out Of A Pack Which Has Been Divided Into Two Heaps
  • To Find A Certain Card After It Has Been Shuffled In The Pack
  • On Entering A Room, To Know Of Three Cards, Placed Side by Side, Which Have Been Reversed, That Is To Say, Turned Upside Down
  • The Four Kings
  • The Four Confederate Cards
  • To Transform A Card Which Has Been Seen Into A Different One
  • The Magical Trio
  • To Make A Mouse, Or Any Similar Thing, Come Out Of A Pack Of Cards
  • To Make A Person Believe You Can Distinguish The Cards by Their Smell
  • To Guess A Card Thought Of by Anyone, And To Name Its Position In The Pack, In Advance
  • Another Method To Name What Card A Person Has Drawn From A Pack
  • To Find In The Pack, And Through A Handkerchief, Whatever Card A Person Has Drawn
  • The Nailed Card
  • The Amazement
  • The Card Under A Handkerchief Discovered by The Sense Of Touch
  • To Tell The Amount Of The Numbers Of Any Three Cards That A Person Shall Draw From The Pack
  • The Charmed Twelve
  • How To Force A Card
  • The Shifting Card
  • The Shuffled Seven
  • Manner Of Changing The Card In A Person's Hand, While Recommending Him To Cover It Closely
  • The Queens Digging For Diamonds
• Magical Delusions
  • The Wonderful Hat
  • The Confederate Coin
  • To Make Touch-Paper
  • A Slow Fire For Wheels
  • Magic Boxes
  • A Brilliant Fire
  • To Make Squibs And Serpents
  • To Make Crackers
  • The Manner Of Making A Ring Change Hands, And Pass On To Any Finger You Please Of The Opposite Hand
  • To Break A Stick Placed On Two Glasses Without Breaking The Glasses
  • Magical Transmutations
  • The Ring And The Handkerchief
  • The Magnifying Reflector
  • Sympathetic Ink
  • To Mix Wine And Water Together And Then Separate Them by Means Of A Red And White Tape
  • To Illuminate The Surface Of The Water
  • The Well Of Fire
  • To Split A Piece Of Money Into Two Parts
  • Artificial Thunder
  • The Tumbling Egg
  • To Swallow A Barber's Pole
  • To Make The Appearance Of A Flash Of Lightning, When Any One Enters A Room With A Lighted Candle
  • Two Liquids When Mixed Form Almost A Solid Mass
  • To Melt Iron In A Moment, And Make It Run Into Drops
  • To Make A Bird Seem As Dead
  • To So Fill A Glass With Water That It Cannot Be Removed Without Spilling The Whole
  • To Make An Object Which Is Too Near The Eye To Be Distinctly Perceived, To Be Seen In A Distinct Manner, Without The Interposition Of Any Glass
  • New Camera Lucida
  • Two Figures, One Of Which Blows Out And The Other Re-Lights A Candle
  • An Optical Game
  • A Vessel That Will Let Water Out At The Bottom As Soon As The Mouth Is Uncorked
  • To Produce Great Heat by Presenting Two Solids To Each Other
  • A Powder Which Catches Fire When Exposed To The Air
  • To Construct And Inflate A Small Balloon
  • To Melt Lead In A Piece Of Paper
  • Artificial Illuminations
  • To Set Fire To Spirits Of Wine by The Rays Of The Sun
  • To Produce Beautiful Fireworks In Miniature
  • To Eat A Peck Of Paper Shavings, And Convert Them Into A Ribbon
  • The Bag Of Eggs
  • A Handkerchief Marked, Cut, Torn And Mended
  • A Watch Pounded In A Mortar
  • To Melt A Piece Of Money In A Walnut Shell, Without Injuring The Shell
  • The Hydraulic Dancer
  • The Fiery Fountain
  • A Person Having Put A Ring On One Of His Fingers, To Name The Person, The Hand, The Finger, And The Joint On Which It Is Placed
  • To Construct Paper Balloons
  • The Magic Bottle
  • The Wine Trick
  • To Discover Which Numbers Have Been Chosen
  • The Globular Fountain
  • The Water Sun
  • To Cause A Brilliant Explosion Under Water
  • The Magical Mirrors
  • To Make Liquid Steel
  • To Change The Color Of A Bird Or Flower
  • Magic Pictures Alternately Representing Summer And Winter
  • The Magic Flask
  • Scrap Or Blowing Book
  • To Keep A Stone In Perpetual Motion
  • How To Cut A Man's Head Off, And Put It In A Platter A Yard From His Body
  • Ice Made In A Red-Hot Vessel
  • Magical Colors
  • Freezing With Liquid
  • Invisible Ink
  • The Magical Teaspoon
  • Invisible Correspondence
  • Beautiful Ornament For A Room
  • To Make Fire Bottles47

1st edition ~1900; PDF 48 pages.
word count: 22591 which is equivalent to 90 standard pages of text