=Gamage Cabinet of Card Tricks.=

Contains a number of first-cla.s.s card tricks, the same as performed by our famous professional magicians. We wish to point out that it is absolutely impossible to obtain a more complete and surprising set of up-to-date card tricks at the price. Complete with full instructions and apparatus. Price 24/6; large size, 35/-.

=The Tambourine.=

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You pa.s.s round for examination two nickel-silver hoops and a sheet of white paper. You then place the paper between the hoops. Now, holding the impromptu Tambourine at arm's length you make a hole in the middle with the forefinger, and from this hole you pull over sixty yards of paper ribbon and again give the Tambourine to the company to find out the trick if they can. Complete with full instructions. Price 4/9, post 4d.; large size, 6/6, post 4d.

=Diminishing Billiard Ball.=

The performer shows a full-sized billiard ball, but wishing for a smaller one, pa.s.ses his hand over it, when it is seen half the size; he pa.s.ses his hand over again, when it is seen much smaller. The ball having been proved solid, is now invisibly pa.s.sed away. Price, with full instructions, 2/6, post 3d.

=The Havit Coin Trick.=

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Three pennies, after being covered with an empty and unprepared bra.s.s cap, change into two pennies. A profitable trick. No practice required.

Price 1/3, post 2d.

=The Celebrated Hindoo Sand Trick.=

A quant.i.ty of sand is placed in water and stirred up, but when those in the secret take a handful out it is found perfectly dry. Price 6d. per box, post 2d.

=The Magician Monthly.=

All about magic, of interest to the Man who is a Conjurer, and the Man who would like to be. Specimen Copy, post free, 7d.

Annual Subscription, 6/6.

=GAMAGES, HOLBORN, LONDON, E.C. 1=

=AMUs.e.m.e.nT FOR THE HOME.=

=Price 1/6 net each.=

=Fun on the Billiard Table.=

A Collection of 75 Amusing Tricks and Games with Photographs and Diagrams.

By "STANCLIFFE."

_Second Edition._ _Stiff Pictorial Wrapper._

"To say that no billiard room should be without this joyous and ingenious little volume is nothing; there is no player, amateur or professional, who would not get his money's worth out of it."--_Sportsman._

=Practice Strokes at Billiards.=

For Tables of all sizes.

Examples from the actual match play of Roberts, Dawson, Stevenson, Mitch.e.l.l, Spiller, Peall, and other leading Professional Players, with their methods of scoring therefrom. With 110 Diagrams ill.u.s.trating the various strokes.

New and Enlarged Edition.

_In Stiff Pictorial Wrapper._

"Anyone possessing a billiard table, or having the necessary 'oof' to pay for private practice, can soon astonish his friends and erstwhile conquering opponents by studying this book."--_Sporting Times._

=Plays and Displays for Boy Scouts.= _In Stiff Boards._

This volume contains six long plays, varying from thirty to sixty minutes in performance, also several shorter plays occupying from five to fifteen minutes, and a number of recitations suitable for Scout Entertainments.

Instructions on How to Run a Scout Entertainment, The Art of Making-up by Willie Clarkson, and How to make Scenery are also included.

_UNIFORM WITH ABOVE._

=Plays and Displays for Scout Entertainments.=

Second Series.

A new collection of PLAYS, RECITATIONS, and other items for BOY SCOUTS.

=How and What to Dance.=

By GEOFFREY D'EGVILLE.

The contents include:--The Etiquette of the Ball-room--Organizing a Dance. Round Dances: The Waltz, Hesitation Waltz and Boston--Polka--Gallop--Two Step, One Step--The Fox Trot--The Jazz Step--Tango--Maxina--Valeta--Barn Dance--Canadian Three Step--Schottische--Highland Schottische. Square Dances: Lancers--Quadrilles--Waltz Cotillion--Caledonians--Parisian Quadrille--Alberts. Country Dances. Morris Dancing. Maypole Dancing.

Etc.

=Price 2/- Each net.=