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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 18 | INTRODUCTION shops where rare collections of programs, newspapers, and prints might be found. In order to conduct my researches intelligently, I was compelled to pick up a smattering of the language of JOH BAPT PORTA Ca Philosoph, Madamatitor and Atrologic zus govo. on John Baptist Porta, the Neapolitan writer on magic. From an old woodcut in the Harry Houdini Collection. each country in which I played. The average collector or proprietor of an old bookshop is a canny, suspicious individual who must accept you as a friend before he will uncover his choicest treasures. As authorities, books on magic and kindred arts are practically worthless. The earliest books, like the magi- cian stories written by Sir John Mandeville in 1356, read like prototypes of to-day's dime novels. They are thrill- [ II ] |