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Title: Modern magic. : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring.
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919 Hawkins, Arthur, ca. 1940
Subjects: Magic tricks
Publisher: London New York : G. Routledge and Sons
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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w form by theFakir of Oolu (Professor Sylvester) in England, and contemporane-ously by De Vere on the Continent. A full-grown young lady wasin this ci^e the subject of the illusion, and was made, while stillsuspended in air, to assume various costumes and characters. Theillusion, in this new form, took the fancy of the public, and broughtforth a host of imitators; but few have presented it with the samecompleteness as the two performers named. For a time it produeeviquite a marked sensation, equal crowds thronging to see Sylvester inLondon, and De Vere in Paris, St. Petersburg, Brussels, Pesth,Dresden, Strasburg, and other continental cities. Recent mechanicalimprovements, to which the last-named irotessor has materially coa- 4<)6 MODERN MAGIC. tributed, have greatly heightened the effect of the trick—the ladybeing made to rise spontaneously from the perpendicular to the hori-zontal position, and to continue to float in the air after her last osten-sible support has been removed.
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Fig. 312 Apnrt from these special mysteries, which we are not at liberty toreveal, the trick is as follows :—The performer brings forward thegirl or boy wno is to be the subject of the illusion, and who is dressed 497 in some fancy costume. A low b:mch or table, say five feet in lengthby two in width, and on legs about six inches in height, is broughtforward, and shown to be wholly disconnected from the floor or stage.

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