PRELIMINARY.
The great and deserved success of “The Secret Out; or, One Thousand Tricks in Drawing-Room or White Magic,” edited by W. H. Cremer, Jun., of Regentstreet, has suggested an entirely new Edition of the same Author’s world-famous “Hanky Panky: Very Easy Tricks and Very Difficult Tricks, Diversions with Dice, Conjuring with Cards, Jugglery with and without Assistants, Gamblers’ Deceptions Exposed.” The Publisher has again secured the services of Mr. Cremer—the gentleman whose wonderful display of the Toys of the World attracted so much notice in the recent International Exhibition—and an eminently entertaining, but, at the same time, thoroughly practical, book is now before the reader.
The present work, therefore, may be considered in the light of a supplement or addition to the Author’s well-known “Magician’s Own Book.”
The Publisher will, he trusts, be pardoned for here directing attention to another book of this class, “The Art of Amusing,” a Collection of graceful Arts, Games, Tricks, Puzzles, and Charades, considered by The Athenæum as being “the best and most entertaining work of the kind with which we are acquainted.”
A companion volume, under the title of “The Merry Circle: A Book of New Games and Intellectual Amusements,” with nearly Two Hundred Illustrations, has just been issued by Mrs. Clara Bellew.
Piccadilly.