Quicker Than The Eye by John Mulholland

This is a wonderfully readable and fascinating description of magic and its history. Written by one of the scholars of magic – John Mulholland. Ben Robinson, the expert on John Mulholland whom he researched for more than 30 years, writes in his introduction to this ebook:

"Quicker Than The Eye was John Mulholland's second book, and the first under solely his own name. It is a tale of adventure and creativity. The pages abound with names, dates, and thrilling stories of the great names in stage conjuring. It is an almost anecdotal history told in an easy-going, very readable style. Professionals today, those with thirty plus years to their credit, often first read Mulholland's pages under the covers by flashlight, entranced by his tales, when parents would have had their boy conjurers sleeping!"

1st edition 1932 (copyrighted 1927), original 259 pages, PDF 99 pages.

6. Introduction
8. Preface
9. Contents
10. Chapter I – Peddlers of Wonders
18. Chapter II – Of the Old World
23. Chapter III – First Magicians in America
28. Chapter IV – Books of Magic
32. Chapter V – The Way You're Fooled
38. Chapter VI – Eastern Magic
42. Chapter VII – Holy Men and Jugglers
47. Chapter VIII – The Red Man's Magic
51. Chapter IX – Romany Tricks
54. Chapter X – The Great Magicians
66. Chapter XI – Those Who Get Not Their Living Thereby
71. Chapter XII – Forecasting and Its Frauds
79. Chapter XIII – A Modern Mountebank
96. Chapter XIV – Near Royalty and Real