New and Original Magic

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Excerpt from New and Original Magic: Comprising a Number of Novel and Entertaining Effects, a Fund of Information for the Professional Artist and His Younger Brother, the AmateurThat much abused word Original has found a proper setting in this book of Mr. Massey. Sol omon said, There is no new thing under the sun.For many years past, King Solomon's sayings could be applied to magic, but Mr. Massey has disproved the axiom, and given us something new in practical magic. There lies latent in the brain of everyone, a vision, a dream, an imaginary some thing that seeks to escape and become a reality, a tangible created thing of value. When Mr. Mas sey submitted his manuscript to me for judgment, and criticism, I immediately thought of King Da vid's expression Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, hast thou ordained strength, and paraphrased it to Out of the mind of the ama teur, has been born a new thing in magic.Mechanical magic has been neglected, and almost forgotten in the multitude of sleights and parlor tricks that have ¿ooded the market and crowded to the wall the greater effects that demonstrate the science of magic or the magic of science. There has been a plethora of books on magic but a pau city of magic in the books.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.