Professor Hoffmann by MAGICAL TITBITS

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Description

After writing Later Magic, Professor Hoffmann intended to follow it with a fourth book. However, advancing age and other engagements compelled him to abandon it. Nevertheless he wrote this volume, which is not really a part of his trilogy, but functioned as a place to put the material he already collected. A few Hartz items in this book have been already dealt with in Later Magic. Otherwise the contents is new.

It is interesting to note that although Hoffmann writes in the preface to Magical Titbits that he abandoned the book which should have followed Later Magic, he authored in 1918 a book called Latest Magic which according to the chosen title is this fourth book initially abandoned.

1st edition, 1911, George Routledge & Sons, New York; 221 pages.

Table of Contents

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  1. Preface PART I. - MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
  2. The Rice and Water Trick
  3. The Vanishing Rice
  4. Tao Li Tao, The Chinese Mystery
  5. Balloons from a Hat
  6. To Discover and Pocket (Before Asking any Question) the Card Thought of by a Spectator
  7. A New Purse Trick
  8. A Silk Handkerchief Changed into a Flag
  9. The Changing Handkerchief Boxes
  10. The Demon Digits
  11. The Acrobatic Cards
  12. The Ball of Wool Trick. (Improved)
  13. The New Card Frame
  14. Outwitting the Conjurer
  15. The Great Book Mystery
  16. The Crystal Balls. (Improved Method) PART II. - RECOLLECTIONS OF HARTZ
  17. Biographical Notice
  18. A Devil of a Hat
  19. The Inexhaustible Handkerchief
 
  1. The Improved Money Column
  2. The Multiplication of Money
  3. The Mysterious Addition
  4. The Inverted Glass of Water
  5. The Multiplying Billiard Ball
  6. The Dematerialised Glass of Water
  7. Card, Coin, and Candle
  8. The Wine and Water Trick
  9. The Witches' Kettle and Magic Punchbowl
  10. The Automatic Rising Cards
  11. The Portfolio Trick
  12. The Second-Sight Trick
  13. The Pocket-Picking Trick
  14. The Aerial Walking-Cane
  15. The Egg and Rings Trick
  16. Contrivances for "Passing Off"
  17. The Hartz "Hook", for Working Mechanical Pieces of Apparatus
  18. The Magic Bell
  19. The Crystal Cashbox
  20. Hartz's Bird-Cage Trick
  21. The Mystic Glove and Rings
  22. L'envoi