The magician's own book, or The whole art of conjuring (1862)
Arnold, George, 1834-1865, Cahill, Frank · New York, Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 328
writer that thislittle figure—the triangle—is capable of working wondersin the hands of an amateur draughtsman, if only properlyused. Of course, those regularly educated, or submitted to along course of training as artists, are not referred to, but onlythe general public, which by the by, means… … Everybody possessed of vision can tell, ordinarily, whether 312 THE magicians OWN BOOK a building or other object is upright, or in the position properto it, or necessary to its stability. By accustoming the handto form lines, ovals, circles, squares, and triangles, and byhabituating the mind to…
Magic tricks
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