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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 132 | 116 LATEST MAGIC with some neat device. Mr. Schooling declared that the original idea was too good to be abandoned, and offered to try his hand at bringing it to a suc- cessful issue. I must frankly confess that I had no great hope of his success; but Mr. Schooling is a man of many talents. Apart from eminence in his own profession (that of actuary and statis- tician) he- is not only an expert amateur conjurer, Fig. 18 but an exceptionally skilful mechanic, and he possesses withal an unlimited capacity for taking pains. He used these qualities to such good pur- pose that I am enabled to include this striking effect among the contents of the present volume. The principal item of apparatus is naturally the pyramid itself, which is of blackened wood as illustrated in Fig. 18. For the sake of lightness it |