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REVIEW PAGE

SamLife will include a page or more of reviews of such things as movies, books, shows, CDs, live performances and so on. Here's a format I might use for my reviews. The opinions expressed are mine alone, and do not reflect the opinions of the Society of American Magicians.

Books

The Magicians Own Book
or
The Whole Art of Conjuring
 
Published by Dick & Fitzgerald, 1857
 
 

This book contains magic as old as the hills and as modern as today.

 

Articles include:

An egg in a Phial (What is a phial?)

Wymans Gun Trick (How to have a marked bullet fired at you using a borrowed fowling piece)

Card Tricks

Sleights

Magnetism

Chemistry

And many more

 

After looking at some of the methods the old timers used, its a wonder any of the magicians survived. Downright dangerous, they were.

 

Submitted by Clem Kinnicutt

 

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