The Secret Out by W. H. Cremer

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There is quite some confusion about this book, because there are American editions and British editions, some only with card magic, others with additional chapters on cups and balls and other non-card magic effects. The book we have reproduced was printed in London and it does include non-card items. We are reproducing the complete table of contents below.

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PART I. – GENERAL TRICKS

The Landlord and the Merrymakers
To Show that an Egg contains a
To Tell beforehand what Cards will be Chosen
To Restore a Poor Jack’s Lost Leg
An elegant Card Trick
To Tell Cards Thought of
The Unfaithful Knave
The Blind Abbot and his Monks
To Throw Thirty-one with a Die before your Antagonist
To Tell which Hand holds an Odd or Even Number of Cards or Dice
To Guess the Points of each of Three Dice thrown on a Table and arranged in Order
The Counter Trick
How many Counters have I in my Hands?
The Square of Counters
To Tell a Number Thought of
A Numerical Puzzle
The Marvellous Addition
Peculiar Properties of the Numbers 37 and 73
To Divide a Number in Two and have no Remainder
A Delicate Distribution
To Divide equally Eight Pints of Wine among Three Jars holding severally Three, Five, and Eight Pints
The Bottle of the Four Elements
To Show Live Earth-worms in a Bottle, after only putting in Mould and Water
To Lift a Bottle, Full or Empty, with a Straw
The Surprising Bottle
The Ascent of Aquarius
The Descent of Aquarius
The Bottled Egg
A Liquor Shining in the Dark
To Convert a Bottle into a Mitrailleuse
To Pick a Coin out of Water without Wetting your Hand
To Change One Coin put in a Plate into Two, One of them Larger than the Other
To Hold a Glassful of Water Upside Down without Spilling
To Make Water Rise from a Saucer into a Glass
To Change the Colour of Liquors in various Bottles
To Make a Colour with Two Colourless Liquids
The United Enemies To Mix Wax with Water
Perpetual Motion
To Make Wine Float on Water
Mock Lightning
To Fireproof your Hand
To Make a Party Look Hideous
Burning of the North Pole
A Lamp to Burn although Trundled on the Floor
The Floating Beacon
Exploding Pastilles
Incombustible Substances
To Blanch and Restore a Rose
To Copy a Seal
Magic Writing Letters that will Come and Go at Command
To Write a Letter Five Miles off
To Make a Cross in the Hand with one Stroke of the Pen
The Magic Nosegay A Trick with Sympathetic Fluids
To Make the Sympathetic Inks
To Make the Sympathetic Fluid
The Magic Oracle
The Tree of Mars, or Metallic Vegetation
Tree of Diana
Two Solids become a Liquid by mere Touch
To have Natural Flowers in Winter
To Tell if a Person is in Love
To Make a Figure which will Raise itself without Machinery
To Imitate the Song of Birds
Salamander Paper
To Change Steel into Copper or Brass
A Distorted Figure seen Well-proportioned from a certain Point of View
To Restore Burnt Ribbon
To Divide a Coin without Cutting it
To Prove that Twice Nothing is of Value
To have Ice in Summer
A Practical Joke on a Linendraper
A Comical Dilemma
To Break a Stick Laid on Two Glasses full of Water, without Breaking them or Spilling the Water
To Boil without Fire
To Balance a Stick on the Finger, without Fear of its Falling

PART II. TRICKS WITH PLAYING-CARDS

The Amateur’s First Lesson
To Make the Pass with Both Hands
To Make the Pass with One Hand; or Single-Handed Pass
The False Double Shuffle; or, Four Methods of shuffling Cards in such a manner as always to keep one particular Card at the Top or Bottom of the Pack
To Exchange a Card
To Slip the Card
To Put Away a Card
To Place a Card
How to Force a Card
The Long Card
To Tell Beforehand a Card not then Chosen
When a Card has been Drawn at Hap-hazard, and Mixed in with the Others by one of the Spectators, to make it Appear on the Top or in the Middle of the Pack, at Pleasure
A Card Drawn by Chance, after the Pack has been Divided into Four Parts: Discover the Selected One
To Foresee a Person’s Thoughts; shown by putting into the Pack a Card, chosen beforehand at hazard, in the Place and at the Number that one of the Company may desire a Moment afterwards
To have a Card Drawn, shuffle it with the others, and after having shown that it is neither at the Top nor the Bottom, make it remain alone in the Left Hand, all the others being dashed down on the Table or Floor by a Right-hand Blow
To make the Four Aces appear in the Middle of the Pack, although they have been separately put in different Places
To Prove the Imprudence of Playing at Cribbage with Professional Gamesters
To Tell a Card Thought of
To Shift the Card
To Find, in a Pack put into the Pocket, several Cards which have been freely Selected by the Audience
Another Method to Name what Card a Person has Drawn from a Pack
To Find in the Pack, and through a Handkerchief, whatever Card a Person has Drawn
To Guess the Spots on Cards at the Bottom of Three Lots made by the Drawer himself
To make a Person believe you can Distinguish the Cards by their Smell
To make another Person Draw the Cards you call for
TRICKS BY THE AID OF APPARATUS AND PREPARED CARDS
To Change the King of Hearts into an Ace of Clubs, and vice versa
The Changing Card
To make several Parties draw Cards and return them to the Pack, and to find them again
After Dividing a Pack into Three Parts, to Find a Card which has been Drawn in any Chosen One of the Three
The Card Thought of, with its Number in the Pack
The Card in a Ring
To Show Several Cards drawn from a Pack in a Telescope
To Discover, Blindfold, by a Sword’s Point, a Selected Card
To Change a Card in a Person’s Hand, while Recommending Him to Cover it Closely
Take in your hand an ace of diamonds, on the other side of which, back to back, you hold a three of spades
To Prepare Powdered Tar for the Foregoing Trick
To change a Card in Passing it from Hand to Hand
To Make a Burnt Card Appear in a Watch
To Pass a Card from Hand to Hand
To Make a Mouse, or any Similar Thing, come out of a Pack of Cards

PART III. TRICKS OF CONJURING, LEGERDEMAIN, SLEIGHT-OF-HAND, &c., COMMONLY KNOWN AS “WHITE OR INNOCENT MAGIC”

Elementary Observations
Tricks with Cups, Balls, Boxes, Coin, Guns, Daggers
To Conjure the Ball
To Put a Ball under Each Cup, and Get them Back
To Pass a Ball into Each of the Cups, and Withdraw it Again
To Conjure a Ball Through Two or Three Cups
To Pass the same Ball from Cup to Cup.
The Cups being covered, to Pass the Ball from one to the other, without raising them
To make a Ball Pass through the Table and Two Cups
To take a Ball from one Cup, and make it Pass between two others
To Pass two Balls, placed under two Cups, into a third
Two Balls under one Cup, to Pass under the other Two
To make three Balls Pass under one Cup
To make Two Balls Pass from one Cup to another without touching either of them
To make the Three Balls Pass under one Cup from underneath the two others
Multiplication of Balls
To make a Ball Pass under each Cup
To Draw Two Balls out through the same Cup
To make the same Ball Pass successively through the Three Cups
To Pass the Balls under Two Cups under the Third, without raising the former
To make the Three Balls Pass consecutively through each Cup
The Balls having been replaced in the Conjuror’s Bag, to make them return under the Cups
To make the Balls Pass through Two Clips
To draw cut Three Balls through Two Cups
To Pass Three Balls, at one Stroke, through a Cup
To Pass Three Balls from one Cup to another
To make the Balls Change Colour
To make the Balls Change Sizes
To make the Balls Pass from one Cup to another
To pull a little Ball (or Coin) out of the end of a Wand
To make a Ball Vanish
To find a Ball under a Cup previously Empty
To make the Audience think there is nothing under one of the Cups, although there are several Balls really under it
To make Two Cups Pass into one another
To make the Balls under a Cup Disappear without Touching them
To find a large Ball or an Orange under a Cup
To make believe there is nothing under the Cups, although there is a large Ball under each
To Metamorphose Large Balls into Sponges, Wigs, Night-caps, &c
To Change a Florin into a Penny, and vice versa
To Run a Knife through one’s Arm without Injury
Magic Boxes
The Magic Funnel
Gun Tricks
The Poulterer and Fowler in one
How to make a Marksman Miss a Target a yard off, and to Parry a Bullet with a Cane
To Put Out and to Light Candles with a Pistol-shot
To Put Out a Lighted Candle at long range with a Gun
To Revive a Shot Sparrow
To Pierce a Board with a Candle
The Magician’s Dagger
The Dancing Coin
The Invisible Coin
The Magic Handkerchief
To make a Coin Stick to a Wall
The Knife in the Decanter
The Dancing Egg
The Egg Bag
To Cut, Tear, and Mend a Marked Handkerchief
The Dice
The Blindfold Sorcerer
Blindman’s Buff with Dominoes
The Domino Oracle
To See and Count Dominoes through all Obstacles
To Guess the two Ends of a Line of Dominoes
To Find Six times Thirteen in Twelve
Tontine, a very pretty Game at Cards, with which a large Party may be Amused
To make a Straw Cross Turn, by Pouring on it Two or Three Drops of Water
Permutation Table
The Link-boys
To Draw two Figures with Crayon on a Wall, one of which will Light a Taper, and the other Extinguish it
Two Dice being thrown on the Table, to find out the Spots on them without seeing them
Piquet on Horseback
Mode of Printing a Card on a White Handkerchief
To Untie a Double Knot without Touching it
To Knock your Head against a Door without Injury
The Melting Coin
The Half-Sovereign in the Wine-Glass
The Feather Trick
The Inseparable Columns; or, the Pillars of Hercules
The Box for Magical Apparitions and Restorations
The Box of Disappearances
The Avalanche of Roses
The Coffer of Transformation
To Make One of Three Objects Jump out of a Box
The Magic Snuffbox
To Read Three Numbers on Blocks Inside a Locked Box
Jack in a Box
The Box of Substitution
The Enchanted Box
The Feathered Confectioner
A Musician in a Half-crown
The Handkerchief-restoring Globe
Coffee of Haricot Beans
The Miraculous Post; or, Winged Expresses
The Magic Drinking-Glass
In which we show that a Watch is made to be Ground in a Mortar
Rice, Coffee, and Dried Pease
Dice which will Pass Anywhere
The Die Changing into an Orange
Instantaneous Bloom of Flowers by Means of Electrified Seeds
The Wonderful Egg-Cup
To Change a Glassful of Wine into a Shower of Rose- Leaves
The Cone, or Skittle
Pile or Cone: A more Amusing Game than Heads or Tails
The Magic Salver
Two and Two make Eight; or, The Multiplying Salver
To Produce Cannon-balls out of a Hat
A Trick intended for the Service of Wards Oppressed by Cruel Guardians
Seine-Fishing on a Card-Table
A Vessel that will let out Water at the Bottom, as soon as the Mouth is Uncorked
Gold-fish in a Vessel of Ink
An Omelette in a Hat
To Cook an Omelette over a Lighted Candle

PART IV THE SECRETS OF GRAND MAGIC

The Magician’s Table
The Playing-Card Blossoms; or, the Bouquet of Cards
The Satyr’s Head
The Magic Rope-Dancer
The Miniature Sportsman
The Marvellous Musket-Shot; or, The Champion of Wimbledon
The Enchanted Target
The Automaton Dancer
The Automaton Smoker, Whistler, and Puffer
The Magic Pistol
The Sword-and-Pistol Trick
To Change the Colour of a Bird’s Plumage, or Petals of a Flower
A Magic Picture, representing alternately Summer and Winter
A Colour which Appears and Disappears at Will
The Magic Likeness
To Impale a Card on a Sword
The Ring-Dove
The Magic Boxes; or, The Twelve Boxes one Inside the other
The Goblet of Millet-seed
The Boxes of Millet Seed
To Make a Ring Change Hands, and Pass on to any Finger you please of the Opposite Hand
A Pass Trick with a Die and Counters
A Wonderful Excuse for Awkwardness
Balls Passing under Coffee-Cups
Marvellous Production of Oranges and Blossoms; or, The Magic Rosebush
The Spring-Gun
To Colour a White Glass Ball after it has Passed into a Bottle, with too Small a Neck to Admit it
To Pound a Watch in a Mortar and Restore it Intact
The Egg or Ball Box
The Obedient Card-Cases
The Enchanted Card-Tables
The Magic Rose
To Produce a Rose in a Clear Glass Vase; or, The Surprising Qualities of Horticultural Crystal
Pick-me-up Cups
The Golden-hearted Pippin, and the Gup of Grain
The Enchanted Billiard Balls
The Vase of Cream; or, The Fairy Dairy
The Three Magic Pyramids; or, The Infallible Method of Ensuring the Purity of your Wine
The Inexhaustible Bottle
The Favours of Bacchus; or, The Bottle of Wine and Ribbons
The Magic Stewpan; or, The Wonderful Reviving Birds
The Wizard’s Cauldron; or, The Animated Dinner
The Magic Punchbowl

PART V SCIENTIFIC AMUSEMENTS

The Magnetic Opera-glass
The Miniature Calculating Boy
The Flower Box
The Magic Sovereign Box
The Intelligent Fly
The Box of Enigmas
The Magnetic Clock
Variation, with Numbers or Letters
The Enchanted Well
The Enchanted Head
The Magnetic Card Box
Cupid’s Palace
The Magnetic Table for Cupid’s Palace
The Ringing Bells
Amusement with the Magnetic Bell
To make Little Figures which will sometimes Pursue and sometimes Avoid each other
Tricks with the Magic Lantern
The Witch of Endor Trick
Secrets of Hydraulics
To make Hydraulic Machines with Pleasant Effects
The Hydraulic Globe
The Hydraulic Fan or Vase
The Hydraulic Sun
A Turning Sun in Water
Secrets of Electricity
To Succeed in Electrical Experiments
The Electrical Fowler
The Luminous Bouquet
To Attract a Light Body Floating on Water
Luminous Rain or Hail
Electrical Dancers
The Luminous Fountain
To Draw Fire from a Person
To give a Shock to any one Opening a Door
The Electric Spider
To Draw Fire from Water in a Glass Jar
The Electrophoros
To Charge the Conductor with Electrical Matter, and Discharge it
The Electric Chimes
The House Struck by Lightning
The Ship Struck by Lightning
The Heavy Casket; or, The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules
The Crystal Cash-box; or, How to send Money from Town to Town without a Post-office Order
The Magic Tripod; or, The Flying Coins
The Fantastic Clock
The Sympathetic Bell

The Secret Out by W. H. Cremer

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