Lessons in Volume 2
| Lesson # - Page # | Brief Description | Category 1 | Category 2 | Inventor |
| How to Please Your Audience | ||||
| Lesson-20-17 | How to Please Your Audience | |||
| Lesson-20-17 | Imagination, Originality, Human Nature, Timing, Humor, Sincerity, Good Taste, Showmanship | |||
| Magic with Wands | ||||
| Lesson-21-47 | Magic with Wands | |||
| Lesson-21-47 | The P&L Vanishing Wand: Performer taps a wand on the table to show it is solid, then wraps it in paper. The wrapped wand is then torn to pieces, and the wand is produced from inside the performer's jacket. Includes suggestions on a threaded wand. | |||
| Lesson-21-50 | The Wandering Wand and Envelopes: Two long envelopes are shown. A wand is placed in one, yet it disappears and is found in the other envelope Uses similar gimmick to P&L wand. | |||
| Lesson-21-51 | Wand from Pocketbook: A long wand is drawn from a previously empty purse. | |||
| Lesson-21-53 | Cigar from Pocketbook: A large examinable cigar is pulled from a previously empty small purse. Wand | Ed Reno | ||
| Lesson-21-54 | Wand from Card Case: A wand is extracted from a card case. | |||
| Lesson-21-55 | Simplex Handkerchief Producing Wand: A piece of paper is rolled into a tube. A wand is pushed through the tube to show it is empty. Silks are then produced from the tube. | |||
| Lesson-21-56 | Vanishing Handkerchief Wand: A sheet of paper is formed into a cone. A silk is pushed into the cone with a wand. The silk vanishes. | |||
| Lesson-21-58 | The Rising Wand: A wand rises by itself in the performer's hand. | |||
| Lesson-21-59 | Sure Grip Magnetized Wand: A wand clings to the performer's palm without visible support. Even a handkerchief between the wand and the hand doesn't prevent it from clinging. | |||
| Lesson-21-60 | Tarbell's Magnetized Wand: A wand mysteriously hangs from the performers hand in various positions and can even be passed from hand to hand. | Harlan Tarbell | ||
| Lesson-21-63 | Edward's Magnetic Wand: A silk is touched by a wand and clings to the wand. Sponge balls do likewise. Three cards selected from a deck of card are pulled out by the 'magnetic' wand. | W. G. Edwards | ||
| Lesson-21-67 | An Emergency Magnetic Wand: A tip for a simplified version. | |||
| Lesson-21-67 | The Penetrative Wand: A wand can be pushed into the spectator's body, swallowed almost completely, or pushed into a boy's head. | |||
| Lesson-21-69 | Card in the Egg Wand: A card is selected and torn. Spectator keeps one piece. Rest of the pieces are vanished. An egg is tapped by the wand, broken open, and the card is found inside, restored except for the missing piece. | |||
| Lesson-21-72 | Rising Ring on Wand: A borrowed finger ring rises on command when placed on magician's wand. | |||
| Lesson-21-75 | Ireland's Growing Wand: A match sized wand changes to a 5' wand and then a large wand. | L.L. Ireland | ||
| Lesson-21-76 | Frank Kelly Vanishing Wand Routine: A wand is vanished in a sheet of paper, to wind up hanging on the spectator's back (uses P-L wand) | Frank Kelly | ||
| Double Paper Mysteries | ||||
| Lesson-22-79 | Double Paper Mysteries | |||
| Lesson-22-79 | Superba Paper Cone for Handkerchief Vanish: Paper is folded into a cone. A handkerchief is placed inside, and the top of the cone folded over. The handkerchief disappears. | Dante | ||
| Lesson-22-82 | The Ghostly Silk: Paper is rolled into a cylinder and a silk is placed inside. Performer apparently removes silk and puts it in pocket, but it is still in the paper. Next, someone from backstage apparently removes the silk, but it is still there. Finally the silk disappears, to be found in a formerly empty glass. | |||
| Lesson-22-85 | Puffing Rice in a Cone: A paper is folded into a cone. Rice in a dish is shown, and a handful is dropped into the cone. Puffed rice is poured out of the cone! | |||
| Lesson-22-86 | The Two-Way Paper Cone: How to construct and 11 ideas for using it. | |||
| Lesson-22-91 | Royal Paper Cone: Vanish or produce small objects, like a torn playing card. | |||
| Lesson-22-92 | Century Card Vanishing Paper: Vanish one or a few playing cards | |||
| Lesson-22-92 | Acme Coin Vanishing Paper: Vanish or produce a coin. | |||
| Lesson-22-94 | Modern Coin Vanishing Paper: a variation of the above. | |||
| Lesson-22-96 | Coin through the Saucer: Using a vanishing paper to have a coin penetrate the center of a glass saucer and land in a glass. | |||
| Magic with Coins | ||||
| Lesson-23-99 | Magic with Coins | |||
| Lesson-23-99 | Miser's Dream: Coins are produced from the air and thrown into a hat. | T. Nelson Downs | ||
| Lesson-23-108 | Hand to Hand Flight of Four Coins: A gold coin in the left hand attracts silver coins in the right hand one by one. | |||
| Lesson-23-112 | The Passe Coins and Glasses: Five coins are counted into a glass and held in one hand. The other hand holds an empty glass. One by one the coins pass from the one glass to the other. | |||
| Lesson-23-118 | The Passe Coins from Hand to Hand: Four coins pass one at a time from one hand to the other. (Uses shell) | |||
| Lesson-23-122 | The Phantom Coin: two quick tricks using a shell | |||
| Lesson-23-123 | The Coin in the Magical Envelopes: A borrowed, marked coin is wrapped in newspaper and handed to the spectator. Upon opening, however, the paper had changed into a paper envelope, with another envelope, with a third envelope inside. The marked coin is found inside. This is repeated. The envelopes are offered to the spectator as a souvenir, but change back to the normal newspaper. | |||
| Cigarette Magic | ||||
| Lesson-24-131 | Cigarette Magic | |||
| Lesson-24-131 | The Push-In Vanish: A cigarette is pushed into the hand and vanishes. | |||
| Lesson-24-132 | The Pick-Up Vanish: a lighted cigarette is taken from the right hand by the left and vanishes, to be produced elsewhere. | |||
| Lesson-24-133 | The Pivot Vanish: A cigarette is patted into the left fingers and the hand closed. The cigarette vanishes. | |||
| Lesson-24-134 | Front and Back Hand Palm: Both sides of hand are shown empty, yet a cigarette can be produced. | |||
| Lesson-24-135 | Throwing Vanish: A lighted cigarette is thrown into the left hand and found to vanish. | |||
| Lesson-24-136 | The Pull Away Vanish: Cigarette held in closed hand, and is pushed in by right. When the hand is opened the cigarette has vanished. | |||
| Lesson-24-137 | To Vanish a Cigarette Up the Nose | |||
| Lesson-24-137 | To Produce Cigarette from Ear | |||
| Lesson-24-137 | To Swallow a Cigarette. | |||
| Lesson-24-138 | Vanish and Production by Paul Fox: Cigarette vanishes from left hand. Both hands shown empty, cigarette is found behind left hand. | Paul Fox | ||
| Lesson-24-139 | The Multiplying Cigarette: A second cigarette is produced from one. | |||
| Lesson-24-141 | The Change-Over Palm: Both hands are shown empty, yet a cigarette can be produced. | |||
| Lesson-24-141 | The Burning Cigarette and Silk Handkerchief: A lit cigarette is placed in left hand and turns into a silk. | |||
| Lesson-24-143 | The Phantom Cigarette: An imaginary cigarette is placed in the mouth. A box of matches is produced, and match lit and brought to the mouth. Suddenly a real cigarette appears which is lit. | |||
| Lesson-24-144 | The Vanishing Cigarette: A lit cigarette is placed in the hand and vanishes. | |||
| Lesson-24-146 | The Vanishing Pencil: As above but with pencil Cigarette | Ed Reno | ||
| Lesson-24-146 | The Dollar Bill in the Cigarette: A bill is borrowed and the number noted. A cigarette is selected and placed in the mouth. The bill is made to vanish and appears inside the cigarette. | |||
| Lesson-24-150 | Catching Cigarettes in the Air: Miser's Dream with cigarettes. | |||
| Lesson-24-152 | An Odd Cigarette Vanish: A box is shown with cigarettes in it. Cigarettes are taken one at a time from the box and placed in another. The second box is then shown to be empty! | |||
| Lesson-24-154 | Cardini's Floating Cigarette: A borrowed cigarette is placed in a tube. A hoop is passed over the tube, yet the cigarette rises and falls inside. | Cardini | ||
| Lesson-24-156 | Lighted Cigarette from Box: A lit cigarette is removed from a case. | |||
| Sleight of Hand with Cards | ||||
| Lesson-25-157 | Sleight of Hand with Cards | Sleight | ||
| Lesson-25-157 | Back and Front Hand Palming: Cards are produced although empty hand is shown front and back. | Sleight | ||
| Lesson-25-161 | Simplified Back and Front Palm: Paul Fox method. | Sleight | ||
| Lesson-25-162 | Production of Cards One at a Time from Back of Hand. | Sleight | ||
| Lesson-25-163 | Production of Cards One at a Time from Front of Hand. | |||
| Lesson-25-165 | To Vanish Cards One a Time and Reproduce Them. | Sleight | ||
| Lesson-25-167 | Flash Card Production: A paper 'tambourine' is created and is obviously empty, the performer plunges his hand through and produces a card fan. | Sleight | ||
| Lesson-25-170 | Producing Fans of Cards | Sleight | ||
| Lesson-25-172 | Color Changes with Cards: the phantom pip, back hand color change, open finger color change, slap change, push up color change, thumb steal color change, double card change, slip up color change, top card change (4 methods), modern card change, single hand card change. | Sleight | ||
| Lesson-25-185 | Bottom Dealing: three methods | Sleight | ||
| Lesson-25-188 | Second Dealing: five methods | Sleight | ||
| Lesson-25-194 | Flourishes: The ribbon drop, the cascade, production of cards from the mouth, cascade production from boy's nose, the one handed cut Sleight, Manipulation | Sleight | ||
| Selected Card Mysteries | ||||
| Lesson-26-199 | Selected Card Mysteries | |||
| Lesson-26-199 | Any Name Called For: A packet of cards is taken by the spectator, and the same number of cards is then counted off the remainder of the deck. This bottom card is memorized. Performer picks up deck, and spells of three or more names. The spectator places his stack of cards back and does the same, resulting in finding his selected card. | Audley Walsh | ||
| Lesson-26-201 | Ten Card Color Change: Ten black cards and ten red cards are counted to the table. The red cards are placed on the black cards face up and shown. The black cards are now dealt and then the red cards. Blacks now change to red, and red to black. The cards then change to suit the way they are dealt. | Audley Walsh ... after Dai Vernon | ||
| Lesson-26-205 | Double Detection: Spectator cuts deck behind his back and reverses the bottom packet. The performer can name the two facing cards. | Richard Himber | ||
| Lesson-26-208 | A Clever Card Discovery: A deck is shuffled and the top card remembered. Cards are removed from the bottom, the same value as the memorized card, and placed on top. The cards are then cut. The performer can find the selected card. | George Kaplan | ||
| Lesson-26-210 | Baker-Walsh Telephone Mystery: Over the phone, the spectator is asked to shuffle the deck and look at the bottom card. This same value of cards is now dealt from the top of the deck to the bottom, and performer can now find the card. | Al Baker & Audley Walsh | ||
| Lesson-26-211 | McCaffrey's Variation of the Telephone Mystery: with full patter. | Bill McCaffrey | ||
| Lesson-26-215 | Prophetic Card Discovery: A prediction is written on a paper. A spectator selects three cards as instructed, and cards are added to each pile to make the value of the pile equal ten. The cards are then added together, and that number of cards are counted down in the remaining deck. The performer has predicted the found card. | E.J. Moore | ||
| Lesson-26-218 | The Conjurer's Touch: A deck is shuffled and a card removed. The deck is placed in the performer's pocket. The suit of the card is named, and immediately a card of the same suit is removed from the deck. The number is named, and immediately a card of the same value is removed. | |||
| Lesson-26-220 | A Mysterious Discovery: Deck of cards spread in a row. Spectator picks up 1-10 cards and moves them to the other end, remembering one of the cards. Magician spreads cards back out and moves spectator's wrist over the cards. He stops and the selected card number is the same value as the number of cards move. He moves and stops again, this time at the selected card | Percy Abbott | ||
| Lesson-26-223 | Marvello: Two spectators think of numbers and as the cards are dealt, they remember the card at the selected number. The numbers are now announced, and the performer counts out the cards and places the selections aside. Two random cards are then removed and placed in an envelope. The random cards change places with the selected cards. | T. Nelson Downs | ||
| Lesson-27-229 | Rising Cards | |||
| Lesson-27-229 | Cardini's Rising Cards: Five cards are selected and returned to the deck. They rise one at a time with the last two rising at once. The deck may now be examined. | Cardini | ||
| Lesson-27-234 | Risng Deck from Card Case: The entire deck rises from the case. | |||
| Lesson-27-235 | A Pack Full of Pep: As above. Cards | |||
| Lesson-27-237 | The Rising Cards and Card Case: Card are cut and three cards are selected from one half and placed in the other. The entire deck is now placed in the case and the three cards rise one by one. | |||
| Lesson-27-241 | Rising Card from the Pocket: A card is selected and returned to the deck. A card is poorly transferred to the pants pocket, and when questioned, the performer points to his shirt pocket, where the Ace of Diamonds rises. The spectator says this is not the card, but on a second look, it is the spectator's card. | Keith Clark | ||
| Lesson-27-243 | Rising Cards from Glass Goblet: Three cards are selected and put back in the deck. The deck is put in a glass, and a hoop passed to show no attachments. Yet the cards rise from the deck. The cards and glass can be examined. | |||
| Lesson-27-250 | Howard Thurston Rising Cards: Four cards are named. Deck is shuffled and placed in a goblet. The four cards one at a time soar up to the performer's hand, high above the glass. The cards are thrown to the audience. | Howard Thurston | ||
| Lesson-27-255 | Superba Rising Cards: Selected cards rise from the deck in a glass to the performer's hand high above. | Paul Fox | ||
| Lesson-27-257 | Thurston's Floating Card: As above, but the last card actually floats in the air, and can be waved all around, finally to rise to the hand. | Howard Thurston | ||
| Lesson-27-259 | De Kolta Card Fountain: Three cards are selected and returned to the deck which is placed in a goblet. All the cards begin to fly out except the three chosen cards. | Bautier De Kolta | ||
| Lesson-27-261 | Harry Stork Card Fountain: As above. | Harry Stork | ||
| Lesson-27-263 | Jean Hugard's Card Fountain: As above. | Jean Hugard | ||
| Lesson-27-265 | Tommy Dowd's Rising Cards: Cards are selected and returned to the deck. The deck is placed in a glass, with another glass placed on top. The cards rise into the other glass, and may be removed by spectator. | Tommy Dowd | ||
| Egg Magic | ||||
| Lesson-28-269: | Egg Magic | |||
| Lesson-28-269 | Humpty Dumpty Outdone: Egg and handkerchief are examined. Egg is dropped into handkerchief, and then broken by the spectator. Spectator reaches in to remove egg, and it is whole. | |||
| Lesson-28-274 | Tarbell's Unbreakable Egg: As above, uses a double handkerchief. | Harlan Tarbell | ||
| Lesson-28-277 | The Egg Bag: Discusses some brief history. Provides a routine in which an egg transports between a handkerchief and an egg bag in mysterious ways. Describes how to make a Tarbell Style egg bag and devil's handkerchief'. | Harlan Tarbell | ||
| Lesson-28-288 | Fool-zum Egg Bag Routine (Percy Abbott): Uses silken egg bag and an ungimmicked duplicate. Bag is pushed through metal ring, egg is produced. At the end, the bag turns into an egg, which is cracked open into a glass. | Percy Abbott | ||
| Billiard Ball Manipulation | ||||
| Lesson-29-295 | Billiard Ball Manipulation | Billiard Ball | A. Roterberg (shell) | |
| Lesson-29-295 | Adam and Eve: Billiard balls (shell) multiply and vanish in the hand to the patter of a story of Adam and Eve. | Billiard Ball | ||
| Lesson-29-306 | The Multiplying Golf Balls: just a description | Billiard Ball | L.L. Ireland | |
| Lesson-29-307 | Special Adjuncts for Ball Manipulators: how to make a holder. | Billiard Ball | ||
| Lesson-29-308 | Rainbow Billiard Balls: Red white green and yellow balls appear and change color in this routine. (4 colored balls, one shell) | Billiard Ball | ||
| Lesson-29-313 | A Mysterious Ball Transposition: Green ball wrapped in green handkerchief and placed in glass changes places with red ball wrapped in red handkerchief placed in another glass. (2 color balls, one shell) | Billiard Ball | ||
| Handkerchief Magic | ||||
| Lesson-30-317 | Handkerchief Magic | Silk | ||
| Lesson-30-317 | The Handkerchief Ball: Sleeves are rolled up, yet a rolled up handkerchief vanishes, both sides of hands being shown empty. The silk reappears. | Silk | George Stillwell | |
| Lesson-30-322 | Soup Plate and Handkerchiefs: Folded newspaper and soup plate are placed on a chair. Two silks are vanished, and appear under the soup plate. | Silk | Bautier De Kolta | |
| Lesson-30-325 | Two Soup Plates and Handkerchiefs: Two empty plates are shown and put together mouth to mouth. Two silks are vanished and found between the plates. | Silk | ||
| Lesson-30-327 | Twentieth Century Silks: Two silks are knotted together and placed in a silk goblet. Another silk is vanished, and is found tied between the other silks. | Silk | Frank Ducrot | |
| Lesson-30-331 | Handkerchief to Billiard Ball: A silk handkerchief tucked into the hand turns into a billiard ball. | Silk | ||
| Lesson-30-333 | The Elusive Rainbow: Humorous 20th Century Silks: silks knotted and knot placed in mouth. Third silk vanished into performer's head, and when silks pulled, it appears between the other silks. A billiard ball also appears, is vanished in the head, and also appears from the performer's mouth. | Silk | Bert Douglas | |
| Lesson-30-337 | Spot the Red: As above. | Silk | Bert Douglas | |
| Rope Magic | ||||
| Lesson-31-339 | Rope Magic | |||
| Lesson-31-339 | Type of Rope Used: short description. | |||
| Lesson-31-339 | Christopher's Three Knots in a Rope: Three knots appear in a six foot rope. One is blown and vanishes, the second is untied to show it is real, the third is visibly pulled off the rope and thrown to the audience. | Milbourne Christopher | ||
| Lesson-31-342 | Christopher's Jumping Knot: A knot is tied in the end of a rope and held under the foot. Suddenly the knot jumps to the top of the rope. | Milbourne Christopher | ||
| Lesson-31-344 | Tannen's Ring, Knot, and Rope: A finger ring is borrowed, wrapped in a handkerchief and handed to a spectator to hold. A rope is held between the foot and the hand, and the handkerchief is waved at the rope. The ring appears knotted in the center of the rope. | LouisTannen | ||
| Lesson-31-347 | Christopher's Thread to Rope: A length of thread is produced and a knot is magically tied, but when other can't see it, it changes instantly to a rope. | Milbourne Christopher | ||
| Lesson-31-349 | Self Untying Rope: follow up to Thread to Rope mystery. Rope unties itself. | |||
| Lesson-31-349 | Christopher's Cigarette to Rope: Lighted cigarette is placed into left fist. It turns into a 5 foot rope. | Milbourne Christopher | ||
| Lesson-31-353 | The Phantom Knot: A knot tied in a rope disappears with a simple pass of the hand. | |||
| Lesson-31-355 | Hindu Knots: Rope is coiled and placed on table; when pulled up, it is filled with knots. It is placed on the table again, and the knots vanish. | |||
| Lesson-31-358 | Chefalo's Knot: Double knot disappears on command. | Chefalo | ||
| Lesson-31-358 | Tarbell's Triple Chefalo Knot: A system of interlaced knots are untied even though the ends are held by a spectator. Rope | Harlan Tarbell... after Chefalo | ||
| Lesson-31-359 | Hocus Pocus Cut and Restored Rope: Two ends are tied, and the loop shown. It is double coiled and cut, and the knot is cut away. Rope is tied again. The knot disappears, healing the rope. | |||
| Lesson-31-362 | A Novel Knot Steal: A false knot that does not have to be slid off. | |||
| Lesson-31-363 | Magician's Cut and Restored Rope: Rope is brought up in a loop and cut, both pieces being shown. The rope is restored. | |||
| Lesson-31-366 | Perplexo Cut and Restored Rope: Good follow up to above. | |||
| Lesson-31-367 | Himber's Rope Mystery: Impromptu cut and restored rope. | Richard Himber | ||
| Lesson-31-368 | Ted Collin's Panama Rope Mystery: A rope is cut into four pieces and restored. | Ted Collins | ||
| Lesson-31-371 | Rope Routines: a very short suggestion for a full routine. | |||
| Ghostlite Mysteries | ||||
| Lesson-32-373: | Ghostlite Mysteries | S. W. Reilly | ||
| Lesson-32-373 | Ghostly Card in the Dark: Floating pips in the dark form the selected card. | |||
| Lesson-32-375 | Date on a Borrowed Coin: As above, revealing the date. | |||
| Lesson-32-375 | A Selected Word: a forced word from a book revealed. | |||
| Lesson-32-375 | Spirit Answers: use a glowing alphabet. | |||
| Lesson-32-376 | The Phantom Die: A side of a die is selected and placed face up by the spectator, then placed into a bag. The magician opens the bag, removes the die, and divulges the number. | |||
| Lesson-32-376 | The Magazine Test: Spectator selects page in weekly newspaper and notes top line. Magician takes paper, turns to proper page, and reads the selection. | |||
| Lesson-32-378 | The Phantom Tray: Ash tray held behind back; spectator places item there, concentrates on it, and removes it. Magician can reveal item. | |||
| Lesson-32-379 | The Evil Eye: create a floating evil eye | |||
| Lesson-32-379 | Spooky Lights: lights appear from nowhere and move about in darkened room. | |||
| Lesson-32-380 | Apparitions of Spirit Articles: Glowing objects. | |||
| Lesson-32-381 | Ghostly Faces: luminous masks | |||
| Lesson-32-381 | Ectoplasm: Mysterious substance projects from mouth. | |||
| Lesson-32-382 | Ghost Materialization: full size ghost appearance. | |||
| Lesson-32-383 | Spirit Lights Under Test: Light flashes from impossible conditions. | |||
| Illusions | ||||
| Lesson-33-387 | Illusions | |||
| Lesson-33-387 | The Mystery of King Tut: Magician wraps self in blanket to mimic mummy. Assistant protests and show magician how to do it. A man from audience joins and the three argue. Suddenly the man removes his costume and is found to be the assistant. The blanket is opened and a girl appears! | Illusion | ||
| Lesson-33-395 | Who and Which: Hindu magician ties girl in sack and places screen around her. After moving around a bit, the sack is opened and found to be the magician, the Hindu costume is removed and found to be the girl. | Illusion | ||
| Lesson-33-401 | Who and Which Simple Method: as above. | Illusion | ||
| Lesson-33-403 | Three Kings and a Queen: Three large playing cards are held flat and carried one at a time to center of stage. A real 'queen' appeared from within them! | Illusion | ||
| Mental Magic Added to the D. Robbins re-print in 2003, from material by Karl Fulves | ||||
| Lesson-33A-408 | The Optical Force | |||
| Lesson-33A-409 | Demon Digits | |||
| Lesson-33A-410 | Ultra Die | |||
| Lesson-33A-412 | The Folded Prophecy | |||
| Lesson-33A-412 | Liars Convention | Don Nielsen | ||
| Lesson-33A-408 | Clocks and Cards | |||
| Lesson-33A-408 | Roughing It | J. W. Sarles | ||
The Tarbell Course in Magic, written and illustrated by Harlan Tarbell, edited by Bruce Elliott, is published by Louis Tannen, New York, NY, © 1954