©1919 George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, London & NY
Hardcover, 142 pages
Also editions by:
Excelsior Publishing
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| Hoffmann, Professor: Tricks With
Cards, Condensed From Modern Magic ©1919 George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, London & NY Hardcover, 142 pages Also editions by: Excelsior Publishing Wehman Brothers |
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Comments: Cover title is Professor Hoffmann's Card Tricks,
while inside title page states, "Tricks With Cards from Modern
Magic", and in one edition "Conjuring Tricks With Cards" This is a
collection of card tricks extracted from Hoffmann's "Modern Magic"
book. Note that this is a different book than Hoffman's earlier Tricks
With Cards from the late 1800's.
From the introductory pages of the 8th edition: "The present issue
of Professor Hoffmann's Modern Magic (which has reached its Eighth
Edition, and still maintains its position as the leading authority
on all branches of Conjuring) is designed to meet a frequently
expressed desire for a more portable form of that work, and to
enable the amateur who may be interested in any particular branch
of the subject to study it with greater convenience. The various
Sections are as under. Price Fifty Cents each: I. Card Tricks;
II. Tricks With Coins, Watches, Rings, and Handkerchiefs;
III Tricks With Dominoes, Dice, Balls, Hats, Etc., Also Stage
Tricks; IV Miscellaneous Tricks."
Contents (from book, updated Aug 2022):
7 Chapter I. Introduction
11 Chapter II. General Principles of Sleight-of-Hand
Applicable to Card Tricks
11 The Cards
12 To Make the Pass
21 To Force a Card
23 To Make a False Shuffle
27 To Palm a Card
27 To Ruffle The Cards
28 To Change a Card
34 To Get Sight of a Drawn Card
35 To Slip a Card
36 To Draw Back a Card
37 To Turn Over the Pack
37 To Spring the Cards From One Hand to The Other
38 To Throw a Card
39 The Bridge
42 Chapter III. Card Tricks With Ordinary Cards, and Not
Requiring Sleight-of-Hand
42 Simple Modes of Discovering a Given Card
44 Various Modes of Disclosing a Discovered Card
45 To Make a Card Vanish From the Pack, and be Found in a Person's
Pocket
47 To Place the Four Kings in Different Parts of the Pack, and to
Bring Them Together By a Simple Cut
48 The Four Kings Being Placed Under The Hand Of One Person, And
The Four Sevens Under The Hand Of Another, To Make Them Change
Places At Command
49 Four Packets Of Cards Having Been Formed Face Downward On The
Table, To Discover The Total Value Of The Undermost Cards
50 To Name All The Cards Of The Pack In Succession
51 The Cards Being Cut, To Tell Whether The Number Cut Is Odd Or
Even
51 The Whist Trick, To Deal Yourself All The Trumps: See Also Page
119
52 To Allow A Person To Think Of A Card, And To Make That Card
Appear At Such Number In The Pack As Another Person Shall Name
53 The Cards Revealed By The Looking-Glass
53 To Guess Four Cards Thought Of By Different Persons
54 The Pairs Re-Paired
55 The Magic Triplets
55 Another Mode Of Discovering A Card Thought Of
56 To Guess, By The Aid Of A Passage Of Poetry Or Prose, Such One
Of Sixteen Cards As, In Your Absence, Has Been Touched Or Selected
By The Company
57 To Detect, Without Confederacy, Which Of Four Cards Has Been
Turned Round In Your Absence
58 To Arrange Twelve Cards In Rows In Such A Manner That They Will
Count Four In Every Direction
58 To Place The Aces And Court Cards In Four Rows, In Such A
Manner That Neither Horizontally Nor Perpendicularly Shall There
Be In Either Row Two Cnrds Alike, Either In Suit Or Value
59 The Congress Of Court Cards
