Modern Card Manipulation

Third Enlarged Edition (content of 1904 first edition up to page 88)
1911
Written by Charles Lang Neil
Work of Various
120 pages (Hardcover), published by C. Arthur Pearson Limited
Illustrated with photographs and drawings
Language: English
55 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Charles Lang Neil The Principles of Natural Magic
7
Charles Lang Neil Manner and Gesture
11
Charles Lang Neil The Conjurer's Clothes
  • For Men
  • For Ladies
 		13
Charles Lang Neil The Wand
15
Charles Lang Neil The Table
16
Charles Bertram The Two-Handed Pass "Charles Bertram's Method"
 		18
Charles Bertram The One-Hand Pass "Charles Bertram's Method", Charlier Pass
 		22
Charles Bertram The Palm - A New and Perfectly Deceptive Method "immeasurably superior to any other", handing deck to be shuffled with right hand
 		23
C. O. Williams An Easy Pass bottom section palmed with selection on top, later replaced on top
 		28
To Palm Cards From Bottom of Pack
29
Paul Valadon The Back and Front of Hand Continuous Palm with Cards illustrated with photographs of Paul Valadon
 		30
Henri De Manche To Make a False Shuffle lift shuffle handling
  • First Method of False Shuffle (top stock)
  • Second Method of False Shuffle (top and bottom stock)
  • Third Method of False Shuffle (full deck)
Also published here 35
To Force a Card one-handed force briefly mentioned
 		38
C. O. Williams The Turned Card selection turns over in deck, deck reversed under cover card
 		40
Mademoiselle Patrice Catching Two Chosen Cards from a Pack Thrown Into the Air top and bottom cards held back by friction
 		41
C. O. Williams The Unique Card selection lost, three piles made, selection is bottom card of center pile
 		43
L. Graham Lewis Novel Discovery of a Chosen Card deck placed on table, table tilted forwards, only selection remains on table, wax on thread
 		44
C. O. Williams The Artful Card wrong card found behind back, then selection produced from pocket
 		46
C. O. Williams A Simple Card Discovery card placed in glass, covered with glass, then selection is face card of deck
 		47
To Shake a Chosen Card Through a Handkerchief
48
John Hamley A Smart Production and Vanish of Cards hands empty, cards produced and vanished again, attached to outside of sleeve and stolen when sleeve is pulled up
 		52
Paul Valadon Some Manipulations with Cards
55
John Hamley The Bottle and Card Trick card shot with pistol on clear bottle, appears at top
 		58
Mademoiselle Patrice To Pass Several Cards From one Person's Pocket to That of Another
60
Charles Bertram The Diminishing Cards
66
Mademoiselle Patrice Discovering a Cards Shuffled Into Pack Blindfolded
72
Henri De Manche The Three-Card Trick without throw
 		77
The Rising Card Trick several selections
 		81
Howard Thurston The "Thurston" Rising Cards five cards rise out of deck and float into hand one by one
  • First Method
  • Second Method for Stage
 		88
The Reversed Card spectator turns card end for end and performer knows which one
 		94
The Queens who left their Courts to dig for Diamonds classic hotel trick with Aces, Kings, Queens and Jacks dealt out
 		94
To allow a Person to think of a Card, and to make that Card appear at any number in the Pack which the rest of the Company may decide upon card and its position from the face remembered, any number named, performer goes behind back, then count started from remembered position
 		95
To tell the Card thought of by arranging the Cards in a Circle Ace through Ten in a circle, on through of and after some counting divined
 		96
To Place the Four Kings in different parts of the Pack, and to bring them all together by a simple Cut Jacks secretly behind a King
 		97
To bring Four Cards together after they have been placed in different parts of the Pack unclear whether the cards are secretly or openly stripped out
 		98
The Cards sprung from Hand to Hand
99
A Row of Cards being placed face downwards upon the Table, to indicate by turning up one of them how many cards have been transferred from one end to the other during your absence
100
To change Three Cards placed in the Pocket of a Spectator into three others previously chosen
101
The "Three-Card" Trick monte throw
 		102
To make Three Cards pass invisibly from one Packet to another three extra cards palmed at the beginning
 		103
The Demon Card Trick card rises to top in paper-wrapped deck
 		104
The Pocket-Picking Trick card located in spectator's pocket
 		105
The Changing Card two cards chosen, a card changes to both cards
 		106
Other Changing Cards
107
The Transforming Sevens four cards change several times, gaffed cards taken out of deck at the start
 		108
The Four Queens changed to Kings four double facers
 		111
Making Double Facers splitting, brief
 		111
To change a drawn Card into the Portraits of several of the company in succession picture cards change into portraits of spectators
 		112
A Selected Card Caught on the Point of a Sword elastic cord
 		113
A Chosen Card Found in a Cigar
114
The Cabalistic Star six cards appear on points of star apparatus
 		115
Tricks performed with the Aid of Card Boxes
116
Bland Bland's Brass Card Box
116
To Make Selected Cards Jump Out of the Pack cards jump out of a special card box apparatus
 		118
To Produce Two Cards in Succession from an Empty Drawer wooden box apparatus
 		120
Data entered by Denis Behr, November 2019.