This text contains a simple descriptions of some impressive magic tricks with instructions on how to successfully perform them. Complete with handy illustrations, simple instructions, and invaluable tips, this is a text that will be of great interest to the novice magician and will also appeal to the more seasoned magician looking for some inspiration for new tricks. The chapters of this text include: 'Magic Without Apparatus and without Skill’, 'Magic with Apparatus and without Skill’, 'Magic with Apparatus and with Skill’, 'Magic with Skill Only’, 'How to Do Magic’, 'Second Sight Experiments’, 'Feats of Mind Reading’, 'Spiritualistic Tricks’, 'The Art of Black Art’, and many more. We are proud to republish this antique text now complete with a new introduction on magic tricks.