C. Lang Neil – After Dinner Sleights and Pocket Tricks

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1st Edition 1914 | Original -119 pages | PDF – 84 pages



Charles Lang Neil was an author， amateur magician， literary agent and publisher. His wife was a student of Charles Bertram. This early 1900’s book is packed with upwards of 100 photographs and illustrations demonstrating various acts and arts of conjuring and legerdemain by the likes of T. Nelson Downs， H. De Manche， Charles Bertram， George Stillwell， Chas. O. Williams， and Mdlle. Patrice (C. Lang Neil’s wife). Neil was the first author to use photographs in his magic books to convey body language and hand movements.



Table of Contents (hyperlinked to text):

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11. THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL MAGIC

13. MANNER AND GESTURE

14. THE CONJURER’S CLOTHES

15. THE WAND

16. THE TABLE

17. TO PALM A COIN

18. THE BACK AND FRONT PALM

24. TO CHANGE A COIN

26. COIN AND GLASS TRICK

27. A COIN WRAPPED IN PAPER DISAPPEARS

29. TO PASS TEN COINS HELD IN LEFT HAND INTO A GLASS HELD IN RIGHT HAND AT ARM’S LENGTH

32. THE AERIAL MINT

34. PRODUCTION OF HANDKERCHIEFS

37. TO PRODUCE A NUMBER OF REAL HEN’S EGGS FROM A HANDKERCHIEF

39. THE HANDKERCHIEFS AND SOUP PLATE

42. WONDERFUL TORN AND RESTORED PAPER

43. THE MYSTERIOUSLY-JOINED HANDKERCHIEFS

47. THE CHANGING HANDKERCHIEFS

50. A RING PASSED ON TO STICK OR WAND WHILST BOTH ENDS ARE HELD BY SPECTATOR

51. THE TAMBOURINE TRICK



54. THE CUPS AND BALLS

54. – METHOD OF PALMING THE BALL

55. – TO HOLD THE BALL WHILST CONVEYING UNDER CUPS



59. THE BILLIARD-BALL TRICK

63. – A SUBTLE VANISH OF TWO BILLIARD BALLS



COIN TRICKS REQUIRING LITTLE OR NO APPARATUS

65. To spin a Coin upon the Floor or Table and tell blindfold whether it falls Head or Tail upwards

65. The Multiplication of Money

66. The Mysterious Addition

66. To place a Marked Florin and a Penny in two separate Handkerchiefs and make them change places at command

67. After wrapping Four Florins securely in a Handkerchief， to cause them to vanish， and be afterwards found in the possession of the person holding the Handkerchief

68. To pass a Marked Coin into either of Two Oranges



TRICKS WITH A HANDKERCHIEF

70. The Vanishing Knots

70. The Transformed Handkerchief

72. The Miraculous Handkerchief

72. A Borrowed Handkerchief Cut-up， Burnt， and finally found in a Candle

73. Colour-changing Handkerchiefs

73. The Magic Laundry

74. The Shower of Sweets from a Borrowed Handkerchief



TRICKS WITH CUPS AND BALLS

76. Various Sleights used in Tricks with Cups and Balls



FOUR VERY SIMPLE TRICKS

79. The Climbing Ring

79. To Indicate on the Dial of a Watch the Hour secretly thought of by One of the Audience

79. The Japanese Ball

80. The Obedient Orange