Fifty years in the magic circle; being an account of the author's professional life; his wonderful tricks and feats; with laughable incidents, and adventures as a magician, necromancer, and ventriloquist (1871)
CHAPTEE I. EAELT LIFE. … wherever we turn, whilst sighing is the only music that falls upon the ear. And how oddly, too, is the world divided. The opinions and ways of its people are so diametrically op- posed to each other, that for us to laugh and amuse ourselves, no matter how innocently, is with some a crime for which…
Magic tricks
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