The magician's own book, or The whole art of conjuring (1862)
Arnold, George, 1834-1865, Cahill, Frank · New York, Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 339
he figure (67) until you can do it easi-ly. Then, for the purposes of sport, proceed as follows.You wish to produce a droll bit of landscape Take anysimple view, such as submitted in Fig. 68. In this you will readilydiscover, as I said above,the curved, graceful linesof beauty—in the clouds,the… … THE MAGIC OF ART. 32: papers to open up, a beautiful lesson could be impressedupon the mind. Nothing is more calculated to refine the mind,to ennoble the thoughts, than to withdraw ones self from theartificial world, and to gaze upon the fresh face of nature. u^^^^vA3
Magic tricks
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