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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 13 | PREFACE The tricks described in the following pages are of my own invention, and for the most part are en- tirely new departures: not only the effects pro- duced, but the appliances by means of which they are produced, being original. From the nature of the case, it follows that few of the items described have been submitted to the supreme test of performance in public, but all have been thoroughly thought out; most of the root- ideas having in fact been simmering in my mind for more than two years past. One or two of them may demand a more than average amount of ad- dress on the part of the performer; but the ma- jority are comparatively easy, and I believe I may assert with confidence that all will be found both practicable and effective. Should any of my mod- est inventions be found, as is not improbable, sus- ceptible of further polish, the keen wits and ready fingers of my brother wizards may safely be trusted to supply it. The items entitled The Mystery of Mahomet, The Bewildering Blocks, and The Wizard's vii |