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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 228 | SECOND SIGHT Then, picking up the long idle quill of Baron Mun- chausen, he proceeds to explain the methods by which he perfected the trick and trained his son. To the layman these methods read most entertainingly. To the expe- rienced conjurer or his humblest assistant they appeal as absurd and impossible, a sheer waste of time, of which Robert-Houdin and his son Emile, presenting second sight. Here the bell is used as it was by Henri Robin. From an illustration in the original French edition of the Robert-Houdin "Memoirs." a man who reproduced the tricks of his predecessors as rapidly as Robert-Houdin did, would not be guilty. He claims to have trained the eye and memory of his son, by leading the latter past shop windows, and after allowing him one glance, demanding the names of articles seen at this single glance. When the boy could mention forty things after passing the window, his education was pronounced good. Robert-Houdin also tells in his [201] |