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 545
Later Magic 545 former would “give himself away”’ half a dozen times: over, but worked in the finished style of Mr. Devant, and with the quaint, crisp patter with which he presents it (and the essential part of which I propose here to re- produce) it never fails to score handsomely. The… … Fic. 218. In point of appearance nothing could be less ‘‘ mysteri- ous’; for it is merely a plain ordinary bag of whitey- brown paper fifteen inches square; the sort of thing a milliner would use to send home a lady’s sailor hat in. 2. An expanding bird-cage, of a kind not unfamiliar to conjurers;…
