pages: unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf, 323
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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 323 | THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT-HOUDIN and who desires to hand down to posterity a clean record of his attainments will be clever enough and manly enough to avoid any attempt to explain that which he does not understand. By his flagrant misstatements regarding the tricks of his predecessors and contempo- raries, Robert-Houdin, however, convicts himself of igno- rance regarding the fundamental principles of magic, and arouses in the minds of broad, intelligent readers doubts regarding his claims to the invention of the various tricks and automata which he declares to have been the output of his brain, the production of his own deft hands. [ 294 ) |