Chapter I - Mysterious Disappearances
"Vanity Fair" - The lady disappearing thru a looking glass.
After The Flood" - Animals & a beautiful woman are produced from a "flooded" Noah's Ark.
"The Magic Palanquin" - A beautiful woman disappears from a planquin carried by 4 men.
"Cassadaga Propaganda" - Magic musical instruments play eerily from a cabinet.
"The Appearing Lady" - A lady is made to appear on top of an ordinary wooden table.
"The Disappearing Lady" - Seated in an ordinary wooden chair, a lady is made to disappear.
"Decapitation" - The magician decapitates his victim only to have the victims severed head speak to him!
"Spiritualistic Ties" - The magician escapes magically from impossible bindings of rope, handcuffs, collars & chains.
Chapter II - Optical Tricks
"The Cabaret Du Neant" (Tavern Of The Dead) - Ghost and apparition illusions to astonish the magicians audience.
"The Three-Headed Woman" - The magician creates a strange woman with three heads that can talk, sing and interact with the audience & the magician.
"Amphitrite" - An apparition of a woman is made to float unaided over the stage.
"The Mystery Of Dr. Lynn" - A woman that appears to have no legs is suddenly complete.
"Black Art" - Magic vases fill with oranges, rabbits, Dancing skeletons parade onstage & more special black art secrets.
"The Talking Head" - One of the most common of all illusions.... a disjointed head seemingly setting upon a table conversing with the audience.
"The Living Half-Woman" - An ingenious improvement of "The Talking Head" trick described previously.
"She" - A beautiful young lady stands upon a table and is "burnt" and transformed to mere bones upon the table.
"The Queen of Flowers" - The magician transforms a flower in an ordinary garden into a beautiful woman.
"The Decapitated Princess" - The magician executes a beautiful Egyptian Princess for her treasonous behavior by way of beheading.
"Stella" - Similar to the Decapitated Princess mentioned above except the head of our decapitated friend floats above stage and speaks.
"Houdin's Magic Cabinet" - A very tricky illusion in which spectators are allowed access to all sides to view a maiden climb into the cabinet, then, mysteriously disappear.
"A Mystic Maze" - Multiple mirrors combined with a few "extras" make a a small crowd appear to be a kaleidoscope of people.
"Platinized Glass"- A mirror that gives an image in the ordinary way when looked at by reflected light, but are transparent when observed by transmitted light.
"Statue Giving A Double Image" - A statue of Marguerite on one side and Faust in the other by way of optical illusion.
Chapter III - Miscellaneous Stage Tricks
"Triley's Couch" - A plank laid across two chairs holds a woman, the chairs removed, she levitates.
"The Haunted Swing" - A multi-person swing in a magic moving room gives the illusion of the swing rotating 360 degrees in an impossibly small room.
"The Scurimobile" - A gun with two barrels that can be aimed and fired at different subjects.
"The Neoocuultism" - Using optical illusions and other magic tricks to "contact the other side" in a convincing, spooky way.
"The Mask Of Balsamo" - Based on the "Death's Head", a long time attraction at the Robert-Houdin Theater.
"The Invisible Woman" - A seemingly invisible woman speaks from an entirely empty box as specators look on.
"Magic Harps" - Harps are made to play onstage with no apparent musician to strum the strings.
Chapter IV - Conjuring Tricks
Trick With an egg and a handerkeif
The cone of flowers
The magic rosebush
Magic Flowers
The birth of flowers
The buttonhole rose
Flowers from a small box
The small bouquet in a hat
Tricks with a hat
Passing a finger, rod & egg through a hat
The endless paper ribbon
The cake baked in a hat
The egg and hat trick
Magic coins
Multiplication of coins
The dissolving coin
The spirit slates
Second Sight
Magic Cabinets
The magic portfoilio
Magic envelopes
Magic boxes
The traveling bottle & glass
Disappearance of an apple and a ninepin
A goblet of ink converted into an aquarium
The invisible journey of a glass of wine
The wine changed to water
The animated mouse
The sand frame trick
Houdin's magic ball
Chapter V - Jugglers and Acrobatic Performances
Jugglers
The Leamy revolving trapeze
Walking on the ceiling head down
The mysterious ball
Chapter VI - Fire Eaters and Sword Tricks
Fire Eaters - Tricks with fire
Sword Trick - a stab thru the abdomen
The Human Target
Sword Swallowers
The Sword Walker
The Glass Dancer
Chapter VII - Ventriloquism And Animated Puppets
Chapter VIII - Shadowgraphy
Chapter IX - Mental Magic