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| Sleight of Hand Tricks. | |
| The Flying Dime, | 3 |
| The Flying Dime, (another method,) | 4 |
| The Beads and Strings, | 5 |
| To get a Ring out of a Handkerchief, | 5 |
| To tie a Knot in a Handkerchief which Cannot be drawn Tight, | 6 |
| The Three Cups, | 7 |
| To tie a Handkerchief round your Leg, and get it off Without Untying the Knot, | 8 |
| The Magic Bond, | 8 |
| The Old Man and his Chair, | 8 |
| To tie a Knot on the Left Wrist, without letting the right hand approach it, | 10 |
| The Magic Handcuffs, | 11 |
| To pull a String through your Button-hole, | 11 |
| The Cut String Restored, | 12 |
| The Gordian Knot, | 12 |
| The Knot Loosened, | 13 |
| To Conjure Nuts in your Ear, | 13 |
| To Crack Walnuts in your Elbow, | 14 |
| To Take Feathers out of an Empty Handkerchief, | 14 |
| The Knotted Handkerchief, | 14 |
| Houdin's Nut Trick, | 16 |
| Conjuring a Ring, | 17 |
| The Erratic Egg, | 18 |
| The Obedient Dime, | 19 |
| The Prisoner Released, | 19 |
| Advantageous Wager, | 19 |
| The Double Meaning, | 20 |
| The Three Spoons, | 20 |
| The Juggler's Joke, | 20 |
| To Cause Water and Wine to Change Places, | 21 |
| The Wizard's Wit, or Is it Possible, | 21 |
| The Toper's Stratagem, | 21 |
| The Impossible Omelet, | 21 |
| New Perpetual Rotary Motion, | 22 |
| The Miraculous Apple, | 22 |
| An Omelet Cooked in a Hat, | 23 |
| The Infallible Prophet, | 23 |
| Philosophy Cheated, | 24 |
| The Disappearing Dime, | 26 |
| The Hat and Die Trick, | 27 |
| The Penetrative Cents, | 27 |
| The Doll Trick, | 29 |
| The Flying Coins, | 30 |
| The Vanished Half Dime, | 30 |
| The Restored Document, | 30 |
| The Magic Rings, | 31 |
| The Fish and Ink Trick, | 32 |
| The Hat and Cannon Ball Trick, | 32 |
| The Dime in the Ball of Cotton, | 33 |
| The Egg and Bag Trick, | 33 |
| The Dancing Egg, | 34 |
| The Bell and Shot Trick, | 34 |
| The Burned Handkerchief Restored, | 35 |
| The Fire Eater, | 35 |
| The Egg Box Trick, | 36 |
| The Globe Box Trick, | 36 |
| The Coffee Trick, | 37 |
| The Handkerchief Trick, | 38 |
| The Magic Funnel, | 41 |
| The Magic Bottle, | 41 |
| The Bottle Trick, | 42 |
| The Magic Quarter, | 44 |
| To change a Dime to a Quarter, | 44 |
| Wyman's Gun Trick, | 46 |
| The Hatched Bird, | 46 |
| The Apple and Orange Trick, | 47 |
| A Magician's Box Explained, | 47 |
| The Enchanted Coin, | 48 |
| The Mysterious Coin, or How to Make Dollars pass through a Wine Glass, a China Plate, a Table, and fall into the Hand, |
49 |
| The Egyptian Fluids, or Impossibilities Accomplished, | 50 |
| The Magician's Snow Ball, | 51 |
| The Magnetized Cane, | 52 |
| Wyman's Mode of performing the Egg Bag Trick, | 52 |
| The Dancing Automaton, | 354 |
| The Invisible Springs, | 355 |
| The Flight of the Ring, | 356 |
| The Magic Book, | 360 |
| The Tape Trick, | 360 |
| The Knotted Thread, | 361 |
| The Transposable Pieces, | 362 |
| Tricks and Deceptions with Cards. | |
| To Make the Pass, | 55 |
| To Tell a Card by its Back, | 55 |
| The Card named without being seen, | 56 |
| The Card told by an Opera Glass, | 56 |
| The Four Kings, | 58 |
| The Four Accomplices, | 58 |
| To Tell the Card thought of, in a Circle of Ten, | 59 |
| To guess the Card thought of, | 59 |
| To tell the number of Cards by Weight, | 60 |
| Audacity, | 61 |
| The Card found at the second guess, | 61 |
| The Card found under the Hat, | 61 |
| To call the Cards out of the Pack, | 61 |
| Heads and Tails, | 62 |
| The Surprise, | 62 |
| The Revolution, | 63 |
| The Slipped Card, | 63 |
| The Nailed Card, | 63 |
| To ascertain the number of Points on three unseen Cards, | 64 |
| To tell the numbers on two unseen Cards, | 64 |
| >The Knaves and the Constable, | 64 |
| The Pairs Re-paired, | 65 |
| The Queens Digging for Diamonds, | 66 |
| The Triple Deal, | 67 |
| The Quadruple Deal, | 67 |
| The Card Discovered by the Touch or Smell, | 67 |
| The Ingenious Confederacy, | 67 |
| Hold it Fast, | 69 |
| The Charmed Twelve, | 69 |
| The Trick of "Thirty-one," | 70 |
| To tell the Names of the Cards by their Weight, | 71 |
| The Cards in the Vase, | 73 |
| The Metamorphosis, | 74 |
| To hold Four Kings, or Four Knaves in your Hand, and to Change them suddenly into Blank Cards, and then to Four Aces, |
76 |
| To Change a Card in a Person's Hand, | 76 |
| The Card in the Egg, | 77 |
| The Fifteen Thousand Livres, | 78 |
| Hints to Amateurs, | 79 |
| Cure for Troublesome Spectators, | 80 |
| To make a Card jump out of the Pack, | 357 |
| The Tell-Tale Cards, | 357 |
| The Double Dozen, | 358 |
| The Housebreakers, | 359 |
| The Magic of Chemistry. | |
| Sympathetic or Invisible Inks, | 84 |
| The Silver Tree, | 85 |
| Cleopatra's Pearls, | 86 |
| Wonderful Experiments in Combustion, | 86 |
| Mimic Rain, | 86 |
| Marine Illumination, | 87 |
| The Mimic Explosion, | 88 |
| The Shower of Fire, | 88 |
| The Magical Heat, | 88 |
| The Magic Lamp, | 89 |
| Surprising Experiments with Potassium, | 89 |
| The Water Demon, | 89 |
| A Flame produced with Ice, | 89 |
| The Chemical Chimney Sweep, | 90 |
| The Magical Illumination, | 90 |
| The Chemical Chameleon, | 91 |
| Crystallizations of Metals, | 92 |
| Beauties of Crystallization, | 93 |
| To Crystallize Camphor, | 93 |
| To do. Tin, | 94 |
| Crystals in Hard Water, | 94 |
| Varieties of Crystals, | 94 |
| A Liquid Changed to a Solid, and Heat from Crystallization, | 94 |
| Beautiful Experiment, | 95 |
| A Solid Changed to a Liquid, and intense Cold from the Liquefaction, | 95 |
| Magic of Heat, | 95 |
| Sublimation by Heat, | 96 |
| Heat Passing through Glass, | 96 |
| Metals unequally Influenced by Heat, | 97 |
| Spontaneous Combustion, | 97 |
| Inequality of Heat in Fire Irons, | 97 |
| Expansion of Metal by Heat, | 97 |
| Evaporation of a Metal, | 98 |
| A Floating Metal on Fire, | 98 |
| Ice Melted by Air, | 98 |
| Splendid Sublimation, | 98 |
| Magic Inks, | 98 |
| Chameleon Liquids, | 99 |
| The Magic Dyes, | 99 |
| Wine Changed into Water, | 99 |
| Two colorless Transparent Liquids become Black and Opaque, | 100 |
| Two colorless Fluids, Make a colored one, | 100 |
| Change of Color, by colorless Fluids, | 100 |
| To Change Blue Liquid to White, | 100 |
| Veritable "Black" Tea, | 100 |
| Restoration of Color by Water, | 101 |
| Two Liquids Make a Solid, | 101 |
| Two Solids Make a Liquid, | 101 |
| A Solid, Opaque Mass, Makes a Transparent Liquid, | 101 |
| Two cold Liquids Make a Hot one, | 101 |
| Quintuple Transmutation, | 102 |
| The Same Agent may Produce and Destroy Color, | 102 |
| Union of two Metals without Heat, | 102 |
| Magic Breath, | 102 |
| Two Bitters Make a Sweet, | 103 |
| Visible and Invisible, | 103 |
| To Form a Liquid of two Solids, | 103 |
| The Spectral Lamp, | 104 |
| Curious Change of Colors, | 105 |
| The Protean Light, | 105 |
| The Chameleon Flowers, | 105 |
| To Change the Colors of Flowers, | 105 |
| Changes of the Poppy, | 106 |
| Changes of the Rose, | 106 |
| Light changing White into Black, | 106 |
| The Visibly Growing Acorn, | 106 |
| Colored Flames, | 107 |
| Orange colored Flame, | 107 |
| Emerald Green Flame, | 107 |
| Instantaneous Flame, | 107 |
| To Cool Flame by Metal, | 108 |
| Proof that Flame is Hollow, | 108 |
| To Hold a Hot Tea Kettle on the Hand, | 108 |
| Incombustible Linen, | 108 |
| The Burning Circle, | 108 |
| Water of different Temperatures in the same Vessel, | 109 |
| Warmth of Different Colors, | 109 |
| Substitute for Fire, | 109 |
| Laughing Gas, | 109 |
| Flame from Cold Metals, | 110 |
| Phosphorus in Chlorine, | 110 |
| Magic Vapor, | 111 |
| Gas from the Union of Metals, | 111 |
| Camphor Sublimated by Flame, | 111 |
| Green Fire, | 111 |
| Brilliant Red Fire, | 112 |
| Purple Fire, | 112 |
| Silver Fire, | 112 |
| Fiery Fountain, | 112 |
| Combustion without Flame, | 112 |
| Combustion of Three Metals, | 113 |
| To Make Paper Apparently Incombustible, | 113 |
| Heat not to be estimated by Touch, | 113 |
| Flame upon Water, | 113 |
| Rose Colored Flame upon Water, | 113 |
| To Set a Mixture on Fire by Water, | 114 |
| Waves of Fire on Water, | 114 |
| Water from the Flame of a Candle, | 114 |
| Formation of Water by Fire, | 114 |
| Boiling upon Cold Water, | 114 |
| Currents in Boiling Water, | 114 |
| Hot Water Lighter than Cold, | 115 |
| Expansion of Water by Cold, | 115 |
| The Cup of Tantalus, | 115 |
| The Magic Whirlpool, | 116 |
| Artificial Fire Balls, | 117 |
| To Melt Steel as Easily as Lead, | 118 |
| To Tell a Lady if She is in Love, | 118 |
| To put an Egg in a Phial, | 118 |
| To Astonish a Large Party, | 118 |
| Magical Test Papers, | 119 |
| Infinite Divisibility, | 119 |
| Chemistry an Agent in Secret Writing, | 327 |
| To Melt a Piece of Money in a Walnut Shell, without Injuring the Shell, | 355 |
| The Pyramid of Alum, | 354 |
| Experiments in Electricity. | |
| The Rotary Tobacco Pipe, | 123 |
| The Erratic Feather, | 123 |
| The Attractive Sealing Wax, | 124 |
| The Unneighborly Balls, | 124 |
| The Electrified Paper, | 124 |
| The Sociable Feather, | 124 |
| The Eccentric Feather, | 124 |
| The Discontented Pith Ball, | 124 |
| The Dancing Bran, | 124 |
| The Electrical Cat, | 124 |
| Electrical Shock from a Sheet of Paper, | 125 |
| Light under Water, | 126 |
| Simple means of Producing Electricity, | 126 |
| Attraction and Repulsion Exhibited, | 127 |
| How to Make an Electrical Machine, | 127 |
| Conductor, | 128 |
| The Plate Electrical Machine, | 129 |
| How to Draw Sparks from the Tip of the Nose, | 129 |
| How to Get a Jar full of Electricity, | 129 |
| The Electrical Battery, | 130 |
| Dancing Balls and Dolls, | 131 |
| The Electrical Kiss, | 131 |
| Ringing Bells, | 131 |
| Working Power of Electricity, | 132 |
| The Electrified Wig, | 132 |
| Imitation Thunder Clouds, | 133 |
| The Lightning Stroke Imitated, | 133 |
| The Sportsman, | 134 |
| Experiments in Galvanism. | |
| Singular Galvanic Shock, | 135 |
| The Flash of Light, | 135 |
| The Magical Cup, | 135 |
| The Prisoner Leech, | 136 |
| The Metamorphosed Knife, | 136 |
| With Plates in Water, | 136 |
| To Make a Magnet by Galvanism, | 137 |
| Effects of Galvanism on a Magnet, | 137 |
| Change of Color by Galvanism, | 137 |
| The Galvanic Shock, | 138 |
| A Galvanic Tongue, | 138 |
| Influence of Galvanism on Porter and Ale, | 188 |
| The Galvanized Flounder, | 188 |
| Experiments in Magnetism. | |
| The Impromptu Magnet, | 139 |
| The Merry Iron Filings, | 140 |
| Test of Magnetic Power, | 140 |
| To Make Artificial Magnets, | 140 |
| How to Magnetize a Poker, | 140 |
| To Show Magnetic Attraction and Repulsion, | 141 |
| Variation of the Needle, | 141 |
| Dip of the Needle, | 141 |
| To Suspend a Needle in the Air, by Magnetism, | 141 |
| Magnetism by Hammering, | 142 |
| Power of the Electro-Magnet, | 142 |
| The Mariner's Compass, | 142 |
| To Make Artificial Magnets without the Aid of either Natural Loadstone, or Artificial Magnets, | 143 |
| The Watch Magnetized, | 144 |
| North and South Poles of the Magnet, | 144 |
| Polarity of the Magnet, | 144 |
| Magnetic Action and Reaction, | 145 |
| To Pass Magnetism through a Table, | 145 |
| The Magnetic Table, | 145 |
| Interesting Particulars Concerning the Magnet, | 145 |
| Exaggerated Magnetism, | 146 |
| The Magic of Pneumatics and Aerostatics. | |
| Weight of the Air Proved by a Pair of Bellows, | 148 |
| The Pressure of Air Shown by a Wine Glass, | 148 |
| The Pressure of Air Shown by a Glass Jar, | 148 |
| Elasticity of the Air, | 149 |
| The Air Pump, | 149 |
| To Prove that Air has Weight, | 150 |
| To Prove Air Elastic, | 150 |
| Air in the Egg, | 150 |
| The Descending Smoke, | 151 |
| Half Eagle and Feather, | 151 |
| The Soundless Bell, | 152 |
| The Floating Fish, | 152 |
| The Mysterious Circles, | 152 |
| The Diving Bell, | 154 |
| The Air Balloon, | 154 |
| How to Make an Air Balloon, | 155 |
| How to Fill a Balloon, | 156 |
| To Make Fire Balloons, | 156 |
| The Mysterious Bottle, | 157 |
| How to Make a Parachute, | 157 |
| Caoutchouc Balloons, | 157 |
| The Bacchus Experiment, | 362 |
| The Magic of Optics. | |
| Light as an Effect, | 159 |
| Refraction, | 159 |
| The Invisible Coin Made Visible, | 159 |
| The Multiplying Glass, | 160 |
| Transparent Bodies, | 160 |
| The Prism, | 160 |
| To Make a Prism, | 161 |
| Composition of Light, | 161 |
| A Natural Camera Obscura, | 162 |
| Bullock's Eyes Experiment, | 162 |
| The Camera Obscura, | 162 |
| The Magic Lantern, | 163 |
| The Camera Lucida, | 164 |
| Painting the Slides, | 164 |
| To Exhibit the Magic Lantern, | 164 |
| Effects of the Magic Lantern, | 165 |
| Tempest at Sea, | 165 |
| The Phantasmagoria, | 166 |
| Dissolving Views, | 167 |
| How to Raise a Ghost, | 167 |
| The Thaumatrope, | 168 |
| The Bird in the Cage, | 168 |
| Construction of the Phantasmascope, | 168 |
| Curious Optical Illusion, | 169 |
| Another, | 170 |
| Another, | 170 |
| The Picture in the Air, | 171 |
| Breathing Light and Darkness, | 171 |
| To Show what Rays of Light do not Obstruct each other, | 172 |
| To See through a Philadelphia Brick, | 172 |
| The Stereoscope, | 173 |
| Ocular Spectra, | 175 |
| Brilliant Water Mirror, | 175 |
| Optics of a Soap Bubble, | 176 |
| The Kaleidoscope, | 176 |
| Simple Solar Microscope, | 177 |
| Anamorphoses, | 178 |
| The Cosmorama, | 180 |
| Distorted Landscapes, | 180 |
| The Magic Coin, | 181 |
| The Magician's Mirror, | 344 |
| The Perspective Mirror, | 345 |
| The Artificial Landscape, | 348 |
| The Boundless Prospect, | 350 |
| The Enchanted Palace, | 352 |
| Tricks in Mechanics. | |
| Importance of Mechanics, | 182 |
| The Laws of Motion, | 182 |
| Experiment of the Law of Motion, | 182 |
| Balancing, | 183 |
| The Prancing Horse, | 183 |
| To Construct a Figure, which, being Placed on a Curved Surface, and Inclined in any Position, shall, when left to itself, Return to its Former Position, |
183 |
| To Make a Carriage Run in an Inverted Position, without Falling, | 183 |
| To Cause a Cylinder to Roll of its own Weight, up Hill, | 184 |
| The Balanced Stick, | 184 |
| The Chinese Mandarin, | 184 |
| To Make a Quarter Dollar Turn on its Edge on the Point of a Needle, | 184 |
| The Self-Balanced Pail, | 185 |
| To Lift a Bottle with a Straw, | 185 |
| The Dancing Pea, | 186 |
| The Toper's Tripod, | 186 |
| The Magical Snake, or the Obliquity of Motion, | 187 |
| The Bridge of Knives, | 187 |
| Sand in the Hour Glass, | 188 |
| Resistance of Sand, | 188 |
| The Magical Gyroscope, | 346 |
| Tricks in Hydraulics and Hydrostatics. | |
| The Science of Hydraulics, | 189 |
| The Fountain and Pump, | 189 |
| The Hydraulic Dancer, | 190 |
| The Syphon, | 191 |
| The Water Snail, or Archimedean Screw, | 191 |
| The Bottle Ejectment, | 192 |
| The Magic of Hydrostatics with the Ancients, | 192 |
| To Empty a Glass under Water, | 192 |
| The Mysterious Bottle, | 157 |
| Boiling upon Cold Water, | 114 |
| Currents in Boiling Water, | 114 |
| Hot Water Lighter than Cold, | 115 |
| Expansion of Water by Cold, | 115 |
| The Magic Whirlpool, | 116 |
| The Cup of Tantalus, | 115 |
| To Weigh Water without Scales, | 353 |
| More than Full, | 361 |
| Tricks in Acoustics. | |
| The Science of Acoustics, | 193 |
| Difference between Sound and Noise, | 193 |
| Visible Vibration, | 193 |
| Transmitted Vibration, | 194 |
| Double Vibration, | 194 |
| Champagne and Sound, | 194 |
| Music of the Snail, | 195 |
| The Tuning Fork a Flute Player, | 195 |
| Musical Bottles, | 195 |
| Theory of Whispering, | 195 |
| Theory of the Voice, | 196 |
| To Tune a Guitar without the Assistance of the Ear, | 196 |
| Progress of Sound, | 196 |
| To Make an Æolian Harp, | 196 |
| The Invisible Girl, | 197 |
| Magic of Acoustics with the Ancients, | 198 |
| The Secret of Ventriloquism, | 81 |
| To Show how Sound Travels through a Solid, | 198 |
| To Show that Sound depends upon Vibration, | 198 |
| Musical Figures Resulting from Sound, | 357 |
| The Magic of Numbers, or Curious Tricks in Arithmetic. | |
| Aphorisms of Number, | 199 |
| Palpable Arithmetic, | 200 |
| The Abacus, | 201 |
| Napier's Rods, | 202 |
| The Arithmetical Boomerang, | 203 |
| To Find a Number Thought of, | 203 |
| Second Method, | 204 |
| Third Method, | 205 |
| Fourth do., | 205 |
| Fifth do., | 206 |
| Sixth do., | 206 |
| To Discover two or more Numbers that a Person has Thought of, | 206 |
| How many Counters have I in my Hands? | 207 |
| The Mysterious Halvings, to tell a Number a Person has Thought of, | 208 |
| Second Method, | 209 |
| Who Wears the Ring? | 211 |
| What is Probable? | 212 |
| Variations, | 213 |
| Amusing Combinations, | 214 |
| The Visitors to the Crystal Palace, | 217 |
| How many Changes can be Given to Seven Notes of a Piano? | 217 |
| The Arithmetical Triangle, | 217 |
| How many Different Deals can be made with Thirteen Cards out of Fifty-two, | 218 |
| The Three Graces, | 218 |
| Second Method, | 219 |
| Third Method, | 220 |
| The Fortunate Ninth, | 221 |
| The Ten Ten's, | 222 |
| Dividing the Beer, | 223 |
| The Difficult Case of Wine, | 224 |
| Decimation of Fruit, | 224 |
| The Wine and the Tables, | 225 |
| The Three Travelers, | 225 |
| What Counter has been Thought of out of Sixteen, | 226 |
| Magic Squares, | 227 |
| Odd Magic Squares, | 227 |
| The Square of Gotham, | 229 |
| The Mathematical Blacksmith, | 230 |
| Curious Properties of some Figures, | 230 |
| The Industrious Frog, | 234 |
| The Council of Ten, | 235 |
| The Two Travelers, | 235 |
| Arithmetical Trick, | 237 |
| The Money Trick, | 237 |
| The Philosopher's Pupils, | 237 |
| To Discover a Square Number, | 238 |
| The Sheep, and the Sheep Fold, | 238 |
| The Countrywoman and the Eggs, | 238 |
| To Rub out Twenty Chalks at Five Times, Rubbing out every Time an Odd one, | 239 |
| The Impossible Triangle, | 239 |
| Odd or Even, | 239 |
| The Figures, up to 100, arranged as to make 505 in each Column, when Counted in Ten Columns Perpendicularly, and the Same when Counted in Ten Files Horizontally, |
240 |
| The Old Woman and Her Eggs, | 240 |
| The Mathematical Fortune Teller, | 241 |
| The Dice Guessed Unseen, | 242 |
| The Sovereign and the Sage, | 242 |
| The Knowing Shepherd, | 243 |
| The Certain Game, | 243 |
| The Astonished Farmer, | 244 |
| The Magical Century, | 244 |
| The Hatter Cheated, | 245 |
| The Basket of Nuts, | 245 |
| The United Digits, | 246 |
| December and May, | 246 |
| The Two Drovers, | 246 |
| The Basket and Stones, | 246 |
| The Famous Forty-Five, | 247 |
| Trick in Subtraction, | 247 |
| The Expunged Figure, | 247 |
| The Mysterious Addition, | 248 |
| To tell at what Hour a Person Intends to rise, | 249 |
| To find the Difference between Two Numbers, the Greater of which is Unknown, | 249 |
| The Magic Remainder, | 250 |
| A Person having an equal Number of Counters, or Pieces of Money, in each Hand, to find how many he has altogether, |
250 |
| The Three Jealous Husbands, | 251 |
| The False Scales, | 251 |
| The Apple Woman, | 252 |
| The Graces and Muses, | 252 |
| The Jesuitical Teacher, | 252 |
| Nine Quaint Questions, | 253 |
| The Fox, Goose and Corn, | 253 |
| Multiplying Money by Money, | 253 |
| The Unfair Division, | 255 |
| A Popular Fallacy, | 255 |
| Curious Tricks in Geometry. | |
| The Inventor of Geometry, | 256 |
| Geometrical Definitions, | 256 |
| The Five Geometrical Solids, | 257 |
| How to Make Five Squares into a large one without any Waste of Stuff, | 258 |
| Deceptive Vision, | 258 |
| The Carpenter Puzzled, | 259 |
| The Bricklayer Puzzled, | 260 |
| Triangular Problem, | 260 |
| To Form a Square, | 261 |
| Squaring the Circle, | 262 |
| The Perplexed Cabinet Maker, | 277 |
| Curious and Amusing Puzzles. | |
| Alexander the Great's Puzzle, | 266 |
| The Chinese Cross, | 266 |
| The Parallelogram, | 267 |
| The Divided Garden, | 267 |
| The Endless String, | 267 |
| Chinese Maze, the Willow Pattern Plate, | 268 |
| The Vertical Line Puzzle, | 268 |
| The Three Rabbits, | 269 |
| The Accommodating Square, | 269 |
| The Circle Puzzle, | 269 |
| The Cardboard Puzzle, | 269 |
| The Button Puzzle, | 269 |
| The Quarto Puzzle, | 269 |
| The Puzzle of Fourteen, | 270 |
| The Square and Circle Puzzle, | 270 |
| The Scale and Ring Puzzle, | 270 |
| The Heart Puzzle, | 271 |
| The Cross Puzzle, | 272 |
| The Yankee Square, | 272 |
| The Card Puzzle, | 272 |
| The Three Square Puzzle, | 273 |
| The Cylinder Puzzle, | 273 |
| The Four Tenants, | 273 |
| The Puzzle Wall, | 274 |
| The Twenty-Four Nuns, | 274 |
| The Horse Shoe Puzzle, | 274 |
| The Card Square, | 275 |
| The Dog Puzzle, | 275 |
| Puzzle of the Two Fathers, | 275 |
| The Triangular Puzzle, | 276 |
| Cutting out a Cross, | 276 |
| Another Cross Puzzle, | 276 |
| The Fountain Puzzle, | 276 |
| The Puzzle of the Stars, | 277 |
| The Counter Puzzle, | 277 |
| Japan Square Puzzle, | 277 |
| The Cabinet Maker's Puzzle, | 277 |
| String and Balls Puzzle, | 277 |
| Double Headed Puzzle, | 278 |
| Arithmetical Puzzle, | 278 |
| Grammatical Puzzle, | 278 |
| The Tree Puzzle, | 279 |
| Puzzling Epitaph, | 279 |
| Curious Letter, | 279 |
| A Puzzling Inscription, | 279 |
| Puzzling Kings, | 279 |
| The Knight's Puzzle, | 283 |
| Another Method, | 284 |
| Another Method, | 287 |
| Rosamond's Bower, | 287 |
| The Labyrinth, | 288 |
| The Chinese Puzzle, | 289 |
| Trouble-Wit, | 290 |
| Answers to Puzzles. | |
| The Chinese Cross, | 291 |
| The Parallelogram, | 291 |
| The Divided Garden, | 292 |
| The Endless String, | 292 |
| Chinese Maze, | 292 |
| The Vertical Line Puzzle, | 293 |
| The Three Rabbits, | 293 |
| The Accommodating Square, | 293 |
| The Circle Puzzle, | 293 |
| The Cut Card Puzzle, | 294 |
| The Button Puzzle, | 294 |
| The Quarto Puzzle, | 294 |
| The Puzzle of Fourteen, | 294 |
| The Square and Circle Puzzle, | 295 |
| The Scale and Ring Puzzle, | 295 |
| The Heart Puzzle, | 295 |
| The Cross Puzzle, | 295 |
| The Yankee Square, | 295 |
| The Card Puzzle, | 296 |
| The Three Square Puzzle, | 296 |
| The Cylinder Puzzle, | 296 |
| The Four Tenants, | 296 |
| The Puzzle Wall, | 297 |
| The Twenty-Four Nuns, | 297 |
| The Horse Shoe Puzzle, | 297 |
| The Card Square, | 297 |
| The Dog Puzzle, | 298 |
| The Two Fathers, | 298 |
| The Triangular Puzzle, | 298 |
| Cutting out a Cross, | 299 |
| Another Cross Puzzle, | 299 |
| The Fountain Puzzle, | 299 |
| The Star Puzzle, | 300 |
| The Counter Puzzle, | 300 |
| Japan Square Puzzle, | 300 |
| Cabinet Maker's Puzzle, | 300 |
| String and Balls Puzzle, | 301 |
| Double Headed Puzzle, | 301 |
| Arithmetical Puzzle, | 301 |
| Grammatical Puzzle, | 301 |
| The Tree Puzzle, | 301 |
| Puzzling Epitaph, | 302 |
| A Curious Letter, | 302 |
| A Puzzling Inscription, | 302 |
| The Magic of Art. | |
| To Trace an Oval, | 303 |
| An Endless Source of Amusement, | 303 |
| The Magic of the Oval, | 303 |
| Variations of the Oval, | 304 |
| What may be done with a Square, | 305 |
| How to make a Circle, | 306 |
| Importance of the Circle in Drawing, | 307 |
| Variation of the Square and Circle, | 307 |
| Importance of the Triangle, | 308 |
| How to Construct a Triangle, | 309 |
| The Triangle Works Wonders in Perspective, | 310 |
| Exaggerated Drawing, | 311 |
| The Parallelogram and Triangle in Combination, | 312 |
| Two Parallelograms in Combination, | 312 |
| Magic of the Parallelogram, | 313 |
| The Secret of Comic Drawing, | 313 |
| Caricature Sketching, | 314 |
| Simple Elements of the Profile, | 315 |
| Comic Profiles, | 316 |
| "Punch," and "Mother Hubbard," | 316 |
| Comical Beards, | 316 |
| The Human Figure, | 317 |
| Proportions of the Human Figure, | 318 |
| Standard Height of the Body, | 318 |
| Comical Drawing of the Human Figure, | 319 |
| The Centre of Gravity, | 320 |
| A Central Line through Everything, | 320 |
| The Curved Line Pervades all Nature, | 321 |
| The Droll Landscape, | 323 |
| Attitude Formed upon the Curved Line, | 324 |
| How to Draw upon Glass, for Magic Lantern Slides, | 325 |
| The Magic of Secret Writing. | |
| The Art of Secret Writing very Ancient, | 326 |
| Various Modes of Communicating Secret Intelligence, | 327 |
| Chemistry an Agent in Secret Writing, | 327 |
| Ingenious Mode of Secret Writing, | 328 |
| The Chiffre Indéchiffrable, | 328 |
| A Lock for Mr. Hobbs to Pick, | 330 |
| The Circular Cypher, | 331 |
| Another Method, | 332 |
| The Musical Cypher, | 333 |
| The Magic of Strength. | |
| Mechanical Inventions of the Ancients few in Number, | 334 |
| Ancient and Modern Feats of Strength, | 334 |
| Feats of Eckeberg particularly described, | 335 |
| One Man Drawing against Two Horses, | 335 |
| Breaking the Rope, | 336 |
| The Anvil Feat, | 336 |
| Breaking Stones, | 337 |
| The Chair Feat, | 337 |
| The Knee Feat, | 338 |
| The Cannon Feat, | 338 |
| Twisting Iron Bars, | 339 |
| General Explanation on all the Above Feats, | 339 |
| Real Feats of Strength Performed by Thomas Topham, | 340 |
| Remarkable Power of Lifting Heavy Persons when the Lungs are Inflated, | 341 |
| Pyramids of Men, | 342 |
| Miscellaneous Curious Tricks and Fancies. | |
| An Artificial Memory, | 343 |
| The Magician's Mirror, | 344 |
| The Perspective Mirror, | 345 |
| The Magical Gyroscope, | 346 |
| Artificial Landscape, | 348 |
| Easy and Curious Method of Foretelling Rainy or Fine Weather, | 349 |
| The Magical Measure, | 350 |
| The Boundless Prospect, | 350 |
| The Magical Watch Lamp, | 352 |
| The Hour of the Day or Night told by a Suspended Shilling, | 351 |
| The Enchanted Palace, | 352 |
| To Know which of Two Different Waters is the Lightest, without any Scales, | 353 |
| To Know if a Suspicious Piece of Money is Good or Bad, | 353 |
| The Pyramid of Alum, | 354 |
| The Dancing Automaton, | 354 |
| To Melt a Piece of Money in a Walnut Shell without Injuring the Shell, | 355 |
| The Invisible Springs, | 355 |
| The Flight of the Ring, | 356 |
| Musical Figures resulting from Sound, | 357 |
| To Make a Card Jump out of the Pack, | 357 |
| The Tell-Tale Cards, | 357 |
| The Double Dozen, | 358 |
| The Housebreakers, | 359 |
| The Magic Book, | 360 |
| The Tape Trick, | 360 |
| More than Full, | 361 |
| Floating Needles, | 361 |
| The Knotted Thread, | 361 |
| The Bacchus Experiment, | 362 |
| Curious Method of Measuring the Height of a Tree, | 362 |
| The Transposable Pieces, | 362 |