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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 224 | 208 LATEST MAGIC famous magicians, past and present, especially in the shape of wands, as being the most characteristic possession of the wizard. Accordingly, some years ago, he began to collect wands, and he now possesses more than eighty such, each a wand which has been habitually yielded by some more or less famous magician. By the courtesy of Dr. Ellison I am enabled to furnish particulars of some of them; as given in a very interesting pamphlet by Epes W. Sargent, a well-known American writer. The catalogue commences with a wand formerly belonging to Professor Anderson, the once famous "Wizard of the North." Here are found also the wands used by the two Herrmanns (Carl and Alexander), Buatier de Kolta, Lafayette, Martin Chapender, Carl Willmann and others who tread the stage no more. As regards the living, there is here a memento of nearly every English-speaking conjurer of note: besides many others of cosmopol- itan celebrity. The wand here exhibited is not always the con- ventional ebony and ivory affair, some of the speci- mens being indeed of a highly original character. For instance, the wand contributed by a Hindu magician consists of the leg bone of a sacred mon- key from the temple of Hanuman, the monkey god, at Benares. The wands of Madame Adelaide Herrmann and Chung Ling Soo take the shape of fans. Horace Goldin's is a cut-down whip-handle, and those of Clement de Lion and Imro Fox are |