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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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Peck
&
Snyder,
124
Nassau
Street,
New
York
City,
are
the
largest
manufacturers,
importers,
and
dealers
in
sports,
pastimes,
and
trick
materials.
They
will
forward
illustrated
catalogues
on
application,
giving
details
of
an
infinite
variety
of
Optical,
Chemical,
Mechanical,
Magnetical,
and
Magical
Experiments,
and
ingenious
deceptions.
Supplementary
sheets
are
issued
from
time
to
time,
giving
descriptions
of
new
novelties.
One
peculiarity
of
their
business
is
that
every
purchaser
is
taught,
by
the
very
explicit
instructions
that
accompany
each
article
and
by
correspondence,
to
perform
whatever
Tricks
he
may
buy,
so
that
he
may
exhibit
them
with
ease
and
without
fear
of
detection,
and
no
trouble
is
spared
in
order
to
make
him
perfect
in
what
he
purchases.
Prices
are
generally
low:
where
a
seemingly
high
price
occurs
the
professor
or
skilled
amateur
will
readily
realize
that
it
is
occasioned
by
the
elaborateness
of
the
mechanism
of
the
particular
apparatus
desired,
and
the
cost
that
such
precision
in
manipulative
manufacture
involves.
The
purchaser--we
speak
from
personal
experience--can
always
depend
on
receiving
uniform
courtesy,
good
value,
and
sound
practical
instruction.
The
novice
must
be
warned
against
imagining
that,
when
he
has
got
into
the
region
of
apparatus,
the
necessity
for
personal
address
and
dexterity
will
be
diminished.
On
the
contrary,
there
is
hardly
a
trick
among
those
we
are
about
to
describe
which
does
not
demand
more
or
less
practical
knowledge
of
sleight-of-hand.
We
shall
assume,
in
the
following
pages,
that
the
reader
has
carefully
followed
and
studied
the
directions
already
given,
in
which
case
he
will
find
little
difficulty
in
this
portion
of
the
work.
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