Hoffmann (Professor), 1839-1919., Plate, Adrian, inscriber., Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) · New York : E.P. Dutton & Co. ; London : George Routledge & Sons, 1904. · leaf 526
526 _ Later Magic taste. For stage purposes, the tubes should be twelve to sixteen inches in height, and range downwards from about six inches in diameter. Each tube should bear, conspicuously painted on it, a number, the largest being No. 1, the next No. 2, and so on.t In the orthodox form of the… … FIG. 213. arranged, as shown in Fig. 213, on a slab of plate glass, supported on low trestles. If, however, the performer finds this arrangement too costly, he may 1In the trick as originally produced, the smallest cylinder was made No. 1, and the tubes were successively exhibited from the smaller…
