Chapter I: Front Matter

HANKY PANKY
=A Book of Conjuring Tricks.=

BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE SECRET OUT.”

EDITED BY W. H. CREMER, JUN.

VERY EASY TRICKS AND VERY DIFFICULT TRICKS, DIVERSIONS WITH DICE,
CONJURING WITH CARDS, JUGGLERY WITH AND WITHOUT ASSISTANTS, GAMBLERS’
DECEPTIONS EXPOSED, &c.

WITH 250 PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS.

_LONDON._
JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, 74 & 75, PICCADILLY.

_PRELIMINARY._

The great and deserved success of “THE SECRET OUT; OR, ONE THOUSAND TRICKS IN DRAWING-ROOM OR WHITE MAGIC,” edited by W. H. Cremer, Jun., of Regentstreet, has suggested an entirely new Edition of the same Author’s world-famous “HANKY PANKY: _Very Easy Tricks and Very Difficult Tricks, Diversions with Dice, Conjuring with Cards, Jugglery with and without Assistants, Gamblers’ Deceptions Exposed_.” The Publisher has again secured the services of Mr. CREMER—the gentleman whose wonderful display of the Toys of the World attracted so much notice in the recent International Exhibition—and an eminently entertaining, but, at the same time, thoroughly practical, book is now before the reader.

The present work, therefore, may be considered in the light of a supplement or addition to the Author’s well-known “MAGICIAN’S OWN BOOK.”

The Publisher will, he trusts, be pardoned for here directing attention to another book of this class, “THE ART OF AMUSING,” a Collection of graceful Arts, Games, Tricks, Puzzles, and Charades, considered by _The Athenæum_ as being “the best and most entertaining work of the kind with which we are acquainted.”

A companion volume, under the title of “THE MERRY CIRCLE: A BOOK OF NEW GAMES AND INTELLECTUAL AMUSEMENTS,” with nearly Two Hundred Illustrations, has just been issued by Mrs. CLARA BELLEW.

_Piccadilly._

_CONTENTS._

PAGE
I. SIMPLE TRICKS 13
II. „ WITH COINS 18
III. „ WITH ROPE AND STRING 36
IV. „ WITH HANDKERCHIEFS 51
V. „ WITH RINGS 56
VI. „ WITH KNIVES 61
VII. „ FORTUNE-TELLING TRICKS 66
VIII. „ WITH BOXES 76
IX. „ WITH HATS 80
X. TRICKS IN DRAWING, WRITING, PAINTING, &C. 86
XI. AMUSING TRICKS WITH VARIOUS ARTICLES 94
XII. INTERLUDES, PUZZLES, &C. 116
XIII. TRICKS IN THE WATER 133
XIV. TRICKS IN ACOUSTICS 139
XV. TRICKS WITH WIND AND AIR 152
XVI. ELECTRICAL TRICKS 156
XVII. TRICKS WITH FIRE AND HEAT 161
XVIII. OPTICAL TRICKS 185
XIX. COMPLICATED TRICKS IN MECHANICAL MAGIC 227
XX. TRICKS WITH CARDS 251