Card Tricks by Ellis Stanyon

This is a classic on card magic covering sleights, routines, special cards, and apparatus. It is very likely that already S.W. Erdnase read this book.

• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER I: PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT OF HAND
  • The Pass
  • To Force a Card
  • The Change
  • To Palm a Card
  • The False Shuffle
  • To Slip a Card
  • The Ruffle
  • To Throw a Card
  • To Spring the Cards from One Hand to the Other
• CHAPTER II: SLEIGHT OF HAND TRICKS
  • The Cards Passing up the Sleeve
  • The Card and Cigarette
  • To Pass a Card Through a Handkerchief
  • To Pass any Number of Cards along the Sleeve, and Produce them from the Breast Pocket
  • Card, Coin, and Candle
  • The Card in the Candle
  • A New Method of Discovering a Chosen Card
  • To Precipitate a Number of Cards
• CHAPTER III: TRICKS PERFORMED WITHOUT THE AID OF SLEIGHT OF HAND
  • To Cause Two Cards Placed in the Centre of the Pack to Appear on the Top
  • To Instantly Name a Chosen Card
  • Foretelling Thought with Cards
  • To Discover a Chosen Card by Its Weight
  • To Name Cards in a Pack Previously Shuffled, without Seeing Them
  • Artificial Clairvoyance
  • Long Distance Second Sight with Cards
  • The Diminishing Cards (New Method)
  • Notes on the Above Trick
• CHAPTER IV: TRICKS WITH SPECIAL CARDS AND APPARATUS
  • The Long Card
  • Longs and Shorts
  • Tricks with the Long Card
  • Tricks with Long and Short Packs
  • Changing Cards
  • The Fairy Star
  • To Fire a Selected Card into either of Two Candles Burning on the Table
  • Card Cricket
  • The Cards and Boards
  • The Card and Bottle
  • The Rising Cards
  • The Cascade of Cards
  • The Dissected Card Box
• CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION

1st edition 1900, 129 pages; PDF 59 pages.
word count: 27199 which is equivalent to 108 standard pages of text