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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
735
CHAPTER
VIII.
PARLOR
MAGIC.
The
art
of
magic,
as
it
is
now
understood,
is
no
longer
a
secret
and
mystic
profession;
it
is
a
written
art,
and
may
be
easily
acquired
by
the
clever
mechanician,
or
any
person
having
dexterous
hands
and
a
large
amount
of
self-possession
and
impudence.
I
say
“impudence,”
because
most
of
the
best
tricks
are
really
so
extremely
simple
that
many
persons
of
a
timid
or
self-conscious
disposition
would
feel
ashamed
to
venture
to
perform
them,
in
case
of
what
they
think
must
be
inevitable
detection
and
exposure.
But
so
blind
is
poor
human
nature
that
the
clever
conjuror
can
always
select
his
man
for
“forcing
a
card
upon
him,”
even
though
he
makes
his
dupe
believe
he
has
selected
one
at
his
own
will
and
choice.
At
the
request
of
a
large
number
of
friends,
I
will
conclude
this
volume
by
giving
a
few
tricks
which
may
be
performed
after
a
very
little
practice
by
anybody
who
will
take
a
little
trouble,
and
for
the
execution
of
which
no,
or
very
little,
apparatus
will
be
required--at
any
rate,
only
such
as
can
be
obtained
either
in
any
ordinary
house,
or
at
a
very
trifling
expense.
The
task
which
I
have
set
myself
is
not,
as
the
reader
might
imagine,
an
easy
one,
for
in
endeavoring
to
give
some
tricks
which
have
not
before
been
already
fully
explained
in
books
published
on
the
subject,
I
find
that
there
is
scarcely
a
parlor
trick
which
has
not
already
been
explained.
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