The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 453
SECTIOxN X. CONJURERS AND CONJURINO—VENTRILOQUISM AND SPIRITUALISM, ETC. … CHAPTER LV.—MYSTERY AND MUMMERY; OR, HOUDIN AND THE ARABS. By John Nevil Maskelyne, of the Egyptian Hall. The famous French conjurer, Robert Houdin, was engaged by the FrenchGovernment in 1856 to proceed to Algiers, and there demonstrate to the natives thatthe Marabouts, whom the ignorant Arabs…
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