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New Nagical Sleights and Fakes.

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BY

REGINALD

A. MORRELL AND

FREDERICK

LLOYD.

COPYRIGHT, 1 9 0 6 .

Sole Agents: HAMLEY BROS., Ltd., 35, NEW OXFORD STREET, and 29, LUDGATE HILL, E.C.

PRINTED BY J . TAMBLYN, LADBROKE GROVE, NOTTING HILL, W.

PREFACE. care has been taken to render the descriptions of the tricks to be found in the following pages as short as possible without sacrificing the requisite clearness. Where illustrations taken from actual photographs could tell the story more concisely than would pages of print, the former have been included, the latter excluded. Quality rather than quantity has been the standard to which the writers have tried to attain. Most of the following tricks are original but one or two are only original adaptations of old principles ; all however will be found practicable.

Accompanying patter has been excluded for the reason that a modern printing bill does not allow too much space for the money. Further in the authors' opinion the available space is better filled by as much useful matter in the shape of new ideas and illustrations as can possibly be included.

With regard to the actual contents of this book the reader's particular attention is called to the chapter on Modern Telepathy. The principle underlying the series of experiments therein contained is absolutely new and easy to acquire. For the actual mathematical methods employed no claim to originality can of course be made.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. TRICKS WITH

THIMBLES

AND COINS

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CHAPTER II. TRICKS WITH

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CHAPTER III. MISCELLANEOUS

MECHANICAL

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CHAPTER IV. M O D E R N T E L E P A T H Y

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CHAPTER I.

Tricks with Thimbles and Coins.

THIMBLES. A series of sleights with a set of unprepared thimbles will never fail to please an audience and the following passes, by reason of their very simplicity, should form an attractive addition to the performer's repertoire.

AN IMPROVED THUMB-PALM. The usual thumb-palm is so well-known that it is quite unnecessary, and, indeed, out of place to describe it in the present work. It has always seemed, however, to the authors that the final limit of this effective sleight has not been yet reached. In the palm, as generally described and figured, the thumb of the hand palming the thimble has necessarily to take up a somewhat horizontal position. For the purpose of illustrating our meaning we have included Fig. i, which is a photograph of the usual thumb-palm as seen by the audience.

Fig. 2 shews the improved palm also as seen by the audience. A comparison between these two figures will show that in the latter the position of the thumb