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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 25 | INTRODUCTION Houdin. I have not borrowed from the books of other writers on magic. I have gone to the very fountain head of information, records of contemporary literature, news- papers, programmes and advertisements of magicians who Signor Antonio Blitz, author of "Fifty Years in the Magic Circle" (1872). Original negative of this photograpli is in the Harry Houdini Collection. preceded Robert-Houdin, sometimes by a century. It would cost fully a million dollars to forge the collection of evidence now in my hands. Men who lived a hundred years before Robert-Houdin was born did not invent [ 18] |