Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Looking Back

The year is 1928, London.

Number 3, Volume 2 of Edward Bagshawe's Magical Journal.




Included:

Adverts for:

"Radiana" (A mentally selected card vanishes from a full deck, and reappears to be examined) "Four Shillings, Post Free
"Cigarette Magic & Manipulation" By Dev. Deveen. Price 4s. 6d., postage 2d.
"Original Spiritualistic Effects" By Edward Bagshawe. Part Four.- "Novel MYsteries." Price 3s., postage 2d.
"The Super Self Shifting Pack" (A selected card is placed in the middle of the deck, without any movement the card is found on the top of the pack) Two Shillings and Sixpence, post free.
"Syko, The Insolvable" Price 6s. 6d., post paid.

Tricks:

"The Sympathetic Number." By F.R. Squire
"Simplified Psychic Writing" By S.H. Sharpe
"A Card Sleight" By F. Edward Cook.

Jottings:

"A lot of people talk to themselves, but the ventriloquist is the only man who can make a living that way."
"To-day's biscuit goes to- the magical author who said if his first publication: "Undoubtedly the best book I have ever written.""
"The Great Bunco cables us that he has just had a very interesting chat with the Prince of Wales. Up to the present, the Prince of Wales has not cabled that he has had an interesting chat with the Great Bunco."

(All text Copyright original author, reproduced for posterity.)