# The secrets of stage conjuring

Author: Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène, 1805-1871; Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919 [Translator]

Genre: Magic tricks -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77917

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+secrets+of+stage+conjuring+Robert-Houdin&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Before I proceed to the practical discussion of my subject, it may be as well perhaps to give a few particulars concerning the theatre founded by me under the title of the _Théâtre des Soirées Fantastiques de Robert-Houdin_,[3] in which I exhibited, during a long series of years, the majority of the illusions which I am about to describe in this book. And I fancy it may be agreeable to the reader if I prelude my description by an anecdote whose details (if I may judge from the effect which its mere recollection, after twenty years’ interval, produces on myself) cannot fail to excite his lively interest.

## Chapters

- [PART II.--_The Dark Séance._--The scenic arrangements of this](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART I.--_The Cabinet._--We are in one of the smaller rooms belonging](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-secrets-of-stage-conjuring-77917/chapters/9/index.md)