A complete manual of card conjuring. This is not identical to the card sections in Hoffmann's other books such as Modern Magic etc. But this book has been released in sections under the titles Card Tricks With Apparatus and Card Tricks Without Apparatus since 1893. It appears Hoffmann was not too happy about breaking it up into parts.
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II. SLEIGHT OF HAND PROCESSES, APPLICABLE TO CARD CONJURING
To Make the Pass
To Make the Pass with both Hands
Single-handed Pass, No. 1
Single-handed Pass, No. 2
Single-handed Pass, No. 3
To Force a Card
To Force a Person to Think of a Particular Card
To Palm a Card
To Palm the Bottom Card of the Pack
To get Sight of a Card
To Change a Card
Hellis' Change, No. 1
Hellis' Change, No. 2
To Slip a Card
False Shuffles
The Bridge
The Ruffle
The Click
To Throw a Card
To Spring the Cards from Hand to Hand
To Change one Pack for another
CHAPTER III. SPECIAL CARDS AND TRICKS THEREWITH
Long or Wide Cards
Longs and Shorts
Biseauté or Tapering Cards
Tricks with Long Cards
Tricks with Biseauté Cards
"Cornered" Cards
Changing Cards
CHAPTER IV. MARKED CARDS, AND TRICKS THEREWITH
CHAPTER V. CARD TRICKS OF A SIMPLE CHARACTER, NOT NECESSITATING SLEIGHT OF HAND
The Turn-over
The "Nerve" Feat
The "Alternate Card" Trick
The "Spelling" Trick
To Name all the Cards of the Pack in Succession
The Whist Trick
Two Heaps of Cards having been placed upon the Table, to Predict with Certainty which Heap a Spectator will choose
The Pack being divided into two Heaps on the Table, and a Card taken from each Heap and placed in the other: to discover such Cards
The Queens digging for Diamonds
A Row of Cards having been formed Face downwards, to divine how many have been moved from one end of the Row to the other
To make a Card thought of by one Person appear at such Number in the Pack as another Person shall choose
The Affectionate Quartette
To discover a Chosen Card by the Throw of a Pair of Dice
The "Whispering Trick"
The Capital Q
To pick out a Chosen Card under a Handkerchief
CHAPTER VI. CARD TRICKS WITHOUT APPARATUS, AND CHIEFLY DEPENDENT UPON SLEIGHT OF HAND
The Obedient Aces
Conus' Ace Trick
The Shower of Aces
Bertram's Ace Trick
Clairvoyance by Touch
To Pass a Card through a Hat
The Ladies' Looking-Glass
Everybody's Card
Cards Judged by Weight, and the Multiplication of Cards
"Stop!" Three Cards having been drawn by Three different Persons, to make them appear at such Numbers in the Pack as the Drawers or any other Person may select
The Cards having been freely Shuffled and Cut into three or four Heaps, to Name the Top Card of each Heap
Thought Anticipated
A Person having Secretly Thought of a Card, and the Pack having been Divided into Three Heaps, to Declare in which Heap the Card thought of will be found
To Invite a Person secretly to Think of a Card, and before such Card is named to pick it out of the Pack
A Card having been Thought of by one Spectator, to offer the Pack to another, and cause him to draw the same Card
Thought Doubly Anticipated. To Place a Card Thought of by one Person at such Position in the Pack as another Person shall mentally Select
CHAPTER VII. CARD TRICKS WITH APPARATUS, OR REQUIRING SPECIAL CARDS
The Transforming Sevens
The Protean Pack
The Four Queens changed to Kings
The Cards passing up the Sleeve
The Diminishing and Dissolving Cards
Card-Boxes
"The Card Table"
Two Drawn Cards, placed in Different Boxes, made to Change Places at Command
A Drawn Card, placed in a Closed Box, made to fly back to the Pack, while Another takes its Place in the Box
The Torn-Card Trick
Jumping Cards. – To Make Selected Cards Jump out of the Pack
The Sand Frame
Professor Field's Card-Frame
The Magic Sword. – A Chosen Card Caught on the Point of a Sword
A Card caught on the End of a Walking-Stick
The Magic Mirror
The Charmed Bullet and the Black Cloth Target
The China Plate and Flying Cards
The Card-Catching Plate
A Card found in a Cigar
A Card found in a Candle
Money-producing Cards
A Pack of Cards changed to a Handkerchief
The Black Velvet Banner
The Multiplying and Vanishing Cards
The Magic Star and Cabalistic Pointer
CHAPTER VIII. STAGE TRICKS
The Fairy Star
The Cabalistic Star
The Rising Cards
The Wonderful Fan and Enchanted Card
The Card and Smoke Trick
The Cascade of Cards
The "Sensation" Card Trick
The Crystal Frame
The Black Velvet Frame
The Card in the Candle
The Card Bouquet
L'ENVOI
