Excerpt from the introduction by Nevil Maskelyne:
The articles contained in this book have been written by good friends of mine. With some of them I have had the privilege of working, both in public and as officers of the Magic Circle. All of them are men well qualified to deal with the subjects they respectively discuss. Not only so, they have the faculty, sometimes lacking in writers upon magical subjects, of making their literature interesting. It is not too much to say of some magical works that they are deadly dull to read. No such reproach can be brought against this series of articles. The ideas and information collected in this little work cannot fail to be valuable to many of those who are interested in the Art of Magic, professionals and amateurs, alike.
- Prefatory Note
- “Angles & Circles”
- The Passing of the Black Top Hat
- Telemental Arithmetic
- The Peculiar Potions
- The “Royal Hunt Mystery”
- “Paper Omelettes”
- “Profit & Loss”
- Notes on Knots
- A “Jewel” Attraction, or a Crucible Experiment
- “A Cool Proposition”
- The “Evolution of Man”
- Gambling’s “Goblin Goblet”
- “A Fascinating Fantasy”
- The Soup Plate and Handkerchiefs
- Thanks! A Fugue on Magicians.
There is a total of 8 volumes in this series:
- Collected Magic Series Volume 1
- More Collected Magic: Collected Magic Series Volume 2
- Expert Magic: Collected Magic Series Volume 3
- Further Expert Magic: Collected Magic Series Volume 4
- More Magical Experiments: Collected Magic Series Volume 5
- Collected Magic Series Volume 6
- The Magical Miscellany: Collected Magic Series Volume 7
- Collected Magic Series Volume 8
1st edition 1920, 89 pages; PDF 58 pages.
word count: 18988 which is equivalent to 75 standard pages of text
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