Pages from more magical experiments

Compiled by

PERCY NALDRETT, Associate of Inner

Magic Circle.

"As to the practice, which has recently grown up, of writing only when one is drunk, or of introducing plain lies into every sentence, they are quite unworthy . . . and can never permanently add to one's reputation." —HILAIRE BELLOC.

(Caliban's Guide to Letters.)

More Magical Experiments (VOLUME F I V E "COLLECTED MAGIC

SERIES.")

COMPILED BY PERCY N A L D R E T T , ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF INNER MAGIC CIRCLE, LONDON. COMPILER OF

COLLECTED MAGIC. MORE COLLECTED MAGIC. EXPERT MAGIC. FURTHER EXPERT MAGIC.

Price

5/6

net.

Copyright.

PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER, 1924.

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Preamble

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The Hat Pin

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Black and White

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The Magic Chef in a "New Role" The Ghost of Dog Toby The Willow Pattern Plate Personal Magnetism The Eye Test

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A Good Turnover Highly Coloured

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The Two Frames Enigma

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A Trick Table

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A Pippy Principle Felix and the Ring

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Hindoo Bead Mystery

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Father Christmas

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The Mystic Bowl

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An Uncanny Force Interruption

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An Effect with Silks

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Preamble Illustrious Magicians ! Scribes, mumblers, and you, thrice precious readers ; it seems but three weeks ago that I wrote you the altogether too famous Argument to Further Expert Magic; yet here am I, at it again, very much alive, still firm in purpose and of a certain jollity of mind.

The first volume of this never-to-be-too-much-praised series of pragmatical, pneumatical and windy problems I published for love ; the second for fame, the third for a wager, the fourth from habit and this present one which you now hold in your much too shaky hands, for money.

Alas, it is so with all enthusiasm and desire : something fades. But, I promise you, this is not the last you will hear of me. Be frolic then, and delve into and dig out from herein the information you so much desire; but I pray that you may not discover from whom I borrow my preliminary thunder.

In my next volume I shall foretell the End of the World, also I shall disclose the hitherto inviolate secret of how to lay flat on'a clothes-line.

Fraternally yours,