Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

CHAPTER III. CARD TRICKS WITH ORDINARY CARDS, AND NOT REQUIRING SLEIGHT-OF-HAND. Simple Modes of Discovering a Given Card 42 Various Modes of Disclosing a Discovered Card 44 To Make a Card Vanish from the Pack, and be found in a Person’s Pocket 46 To place the Four Kings in different parts of the Pack, and to bring them together by a simple Cut 47 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 48 Four Packets of Cards having been formed face downwards on the Table, to discover the Total Value of the Undermost Cards 49 To Name all the Cards of the Pack in Succession 50 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) 51 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 52 The Cards revealed by the Looking-glass 53 To Guess Four Cards thought of by Different Persons 53 The Pairs Re-paired 54 The Magic Triplets 55 Another Mode of Discovering a Card thought of 55 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 56 To Detect, without Confederacy, which of Four Cards has been Turned Round in your Absence 57