Modern Card Manipulation by Charles Lang Neil

Table of Contents

1. The Principles Of Natural Magic
2. Manner And Gesture
3. The Conjurer's Clothes
4. The Wand
5. The Table

   SLEIGHTS NECESSARY IN CARD CONJURING

6. The Two-Handed Pass
7. The One-Hand Pass
8. The Palm-A New And Perfectly Deceptive Method
9. An Easy Pass
10. To Palm Cards From Bottom Of Pack
11. The Back And Front Of Hand Continuous Palm With Cards
12. To Make A False Shuffle
13. To Force A Card

    SOME SIMPLE CARD TRICKS

14. The Turned Card
15. Catching Two Chosen Cards From A Pack Thrown Into The Air
16. The Unique Card
17. Novel Discovery Of A Chosen Card
18. The Artful Card
19. A Simple Card Discovery
20. To Shake A Chosen Card Through A Handkerchief

    SOME MORE ADVANCED TRICKS

21. A Smart Production And Vanish Of Cards
22. Some Manipulations With Cards
23. The Bottle And Card Trick
24. To Pass Several Cards From One Person's Pocket To That Of Another
25. The Diminishing Cards
26. Discovering A Card Shuffled Into Pack Blindfolded
27. The Three-Card Trick
28. The Rising Card Trick
29. The "Thurston" Rising Cards

1st edition 1906; original 96 pages; PDF 65 pages.
word count: 21966 which is equivalent to 87 standard pages of text