This text contains a guide on mastering a variety of sleights and magical effects with cards, coins, ropes, cigars, thimbles, cigarettes, handkerchiefs, and many other objects. Including handy tips, detailed descriptions, and helpful diagrams, this text is ideal for the novice magician and makes for a great addition to collections of such literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Sleights and Aids in Card Work', 'Some Fresh Card Effects', 'On Coins', 'On Ropes', 'On Billiard Balls', 'On Cigars and Cigarettes', 'G.W. Hunter's Card Effects', 'Miscellaneous Effects', and 'Conclusion'. Many antique book such as this are becoming increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are proud to republish this text here compete with a new introduction on magic tricks.