Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
CHAPTER V.
CARD TRICKS REQUIRING SPECIAL APPARATUS.
The Magic Sword. A Card being drawn and replaced, and the Pack flung in the Air, to catch the chosen Card on the point of the Sword 121
The Rising Cards.--Several Cards having been drawn, returned, and shuffled, to make them rise spontaneously from the Pack 125
The Jumping Cards.--Two or three Cards having been drawn, returned, and shuffled, to make them jump out of the Pack 130
To make a Card stand upright by itself on the Table 132
“Changing” Card-boxes, and Tricks performed with them 134
The Mechanical Card-box 137
The “Card and Bird Box” 138
The Card Tripod 139
The “Torn Card” 139
Mechanical Changing Cards 142