The Boy Magician: A large number of the latest and best tricks carefully selected for the rising generation of conjurers

“ … It is considered very bad ethics among the conjuring fraternity to expose even a single trick, and, while it is not necessarily harmful in itself to do so, it does, as a matter of fact, detract from the mystery of all the other tricks performed during the same exhibition. To explain, however, by private lessons or in book form how to do the tricks is taken by magicians in general to be perfectly legitimate and correct.
I have had the thought in mind these many seasons of writing a treati...