Lessons in Volume 4
| Lesson # - Page # | Brief Description | Category 1 | Category 2 | Inventor |
| Ethics Among Magicians | ||||
| Lesson-46-00 | Ethics Among Magicians | |||
| Novelty Magic | ||||
| Lesson-46-21 | Christopher's Telegram to Flowers | Flowers | Milbourne Christopher | |
| Lesson-46-23 | Christopher's Flaming Napkin (flash paper) | Milbourne Christopher | ||
| Lesson-46-25 | Instantaneous Flower Production | Flowers | Carlyle (Lyle F. Laughlin) | |
| Lesson-46-27 | Bert Easley's Impromptu Cigarette Production (about a dozen) | Cigarette | Impromptu | Bert Easley |
| Lesson-46-29 | Smoke Up Your Sleeve: smoke blown down 1 sleeve comes out the other | Cigarette | Arnold Belais | |
| Lesson-46-32 | Impromptu Hydrostatic Glass: Water suspends in upside down glass | Liquid | Joseph Scherer | |
| Lesson-46-34 | Freezing a Glass of Water: cellophane illusion | Liquid | ...after Joseph Scherer | |
| Lesson-46-36 | Isely's Anti-Gravico: device allows upside down pop bottle to retain liquid | Liquid | John Isley | |
| Lesson-46-39 | Water Production from Paper Cup: Water from nowhere | Liquid | ||
| Lesson-46-41 | Water in the Hat: Water poured into hat: hat is okay | Liquid | Fred Shadley | |
| Lesson-46-43 | Berland Cup and Water Transit: Cup of Water transfers from Bag to Hat | Liquid | Samuel Berland | |
| Lesson-46-46 | Soap Pitchman: Money placed in bar of soap, but spectator always loses | William Larsen | ||
| Lesson-46-51 | The Stamp Album: Magic Coloring Book | Children's Magic | John Giordmaine | |
| Lesson-46-54 | Dell O'Dell Stamp Album presentation | Children's Magic | Dell O'Dell | |
| Lesson-46-55 | John Booth's Album of Stars: Color Album and picture frame | John Booth | ||
| Lesson-46-62 | Knife and Paper Squares: paddle trick | Russ Walsh | ||
| Lesson-46-64 | Koko and the Jumping Block: ABC blocks and shell | Children's Magic | Robert Lotz ...after Professor Hoffmann | |
| Lesson-46-69 | Cut and Restored Necktie | |||
| Lesson-46-71 | Jack Gwynne's Color Changing Rabbit | Livestock | Jack Gwynne | |
| Thimble Magic | ||||
| Lesson-47-73 | 16 Thimble routine | Thimble | ||
| Lesson-47-75 | Preliminary Special Practice: Thumb palm, back and front palm, production, change over palm | Thimble | ||
| Lesson-47-79 | Thimble Act Routine: slow thimble vanish, 2nd finger hideaway, production, pull away vanish, two in one color change, head and mouth vanish, jump hand to hand, outline of act and more | Thimble | ||
| Lesson-47-97 | Miser's Dream with Thimbles | Thimble | ||
| Lesson-47-99 | Some interesting vanishes | Thimble | ||
| Swallowing Needles and Razor Blades | ||||
| Lesson-48-103 | The Needle Mystery: Needles and thread swallowed and come out threaded | Danger | Harry Houdini | |
| Lesson-48-108 | Threaded Razor Blades in Mouth: with a John Booth Suggestion | Danger | Buerger | |
| Unique Card Magic | ||||
| Lesson-49-113 | Kolma-Tarbell Snooty Snake: spring snake reveals card | Cards | Children | Dr. Kolma & Harlan Tarbell |
| Lesson-49-116 | Flash Card Change: Two cards selected, returned, and deck placed in glass. Handkerchief covers glass and first, then second card revealed. | Cards | Karl Germain | |
| Lesson-49-119 | Tarbell Card on the Necktie: Selected card appears on spectator's necktie | Cards | Harlan Tarbell | |
| Lesson-49-120 | The Yankee Doodle Card: spectator selects card by whistling Yankee Doodle | Cards | ||
| Lesson-49-122 | Joe Berg's Flip Up Card: Cards are riffled, selected card rises half way out | Cards | Joe Berg | |
| Lesson-49-123 | Pop Up Cards: Cards appear suddenly or shoot up from hand | Cards | ||
| Lesson-49-124 | The Jump Up Card: Selected card jumps from hand to hat held above deck | Cards | Audley Walsh | |
| Lesson-49-125 | Revolver Card: Selected card shoots from deck | Cards | Richard Himber | |
| Lesson-49-126 | Audley Walsh's Side Spinner: selected card spins sideways fro deck into hat | Cards | Audley Walsh | |
| Lesson-49-127 | Audley Walsh's Long Distance Spinner | Cards | Audley Walsh | |
| Lesson-49-128 | The Floating Queen: card floats behind fingers | Cards | Joe Karson | |
| Lesson-49-130 | The Vanishing Bird Cage Card: Card disappears in hands | Cards | Joe Karson | |
| Lesson-49-132 | Mendes' Shooting Card: Selected Card shoot from case while held by spectator | Cards | John Prince Mendes | |
| Novelty Rising Cards | ||||
| Lesson-50-135 | Modern Rising Cards from Envelope: 3 cards rise while in envelope on easel | Cards | Animation | |
| Lesson-50-139 | Enchanted Cards and Envelope: As above | Cards | Animation | |
| Lesson-50-142 | Bewitched Rising Cards and Envelope: As above, but in hands | Cards | Animation | |
| Lesson-50-145 | Mysterious Bookmarks or Rising Cards from Book | Cards | Animation | |
| Lesson-50-148 | A Book and a Card: impromptu | Cards | Animation | |
| Lesson-50-150 | Rising Cards through Hat | Cards | Animation | |
| Lesson-50-152 | Rising Cards Out of Hat | Cards | Animation | |
| Lesson-50-154 | Tarbell's Haunted House Rising Cards: small metal haunted house | Cards | Animation | Harlan Tarbell |
| Card Transitions | ||||
| Lesson-51-157 | The Flying Cards: cards pass from one packet to another | Cards | Transition | Walter Gibson |
| Lesson-51-158 | Tarbell Flying Cards: as above | Cards | Transition | Harlan Tarbell |
| Lesson-51-165 | The Passing of Three Selected Cards | Cards | Transition | |
| Lesson-51-166 | Flying Cards and Envelopes: variation using envelopes | Cards | Transition | |
| Lesson-51-170 | Wilder's Flying Cards: as above | Cards | Transition | Harry Wilder |
| Lesson-51-172 | Hen Fetsch's Surpasso: Selected cards end up in alternate envelope | Cards | Transition | Hen Fetsch |
| Lesson-51-174 | Ships That Pass In the Night: flying cards with red/blue backed decks | Cards | Transition | Dr. Raymond L. Beebe |
| Lesson-51-177 | Red and Black Transposition: ten reds change with 10 blacks (roughing) | Cards | Transition | |
| Lesson-51-181 | The Cards Up the Sleeve: 12 cards to pocket, one at a time | Cards | Transition | |
| Lesson-51-187 | Cards up the Sleeve (Shoulder Method): as above, but from shoulder of coat | Cards | Transition | |
| Mental and Psychic Mysteries | ||||
| Lesson-52-192 | Himber's Transcendental Book Test | Mentalism | Richard Himber | |
| Lesson-52-196 | Hen Fetsch's Double Knockout: 4 numbers called out, total predicted | Mentalism | Hen Fetsch | |
| Lesson-52-200 | Grant's New Slate Test: 4 number total predicted | Mentalism | U.F. Grant | |
| Lesson-52-202 | Answer to a Mentalist's Prayer: Special envelopes allow instant detection | Mentalism | Eddie Clever | |
| Lesson-52-206 | Distant Mental Communication: objects determined by remote assistant | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-52-209 | The Yogi's Prediction: Paper sealed in envelope, Yogi reveals number, city, etc. | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-52-211 | Rapid Mental Transference: A number sealed in envelope is revealed by magician | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-52-214 | Superbe Prediction: nail writer | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-52-216 | Telepathic Pictures: Magician and spectator draw the same picture | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-52-219 | Man Mind Reading Act: with billet switch | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-52-224 | Modern Crystal Gazing Act: gimmicked tray | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-52-231 | Excelsior Mind Reading Act: full act with several methods used | Mentalism | Anna Eva Fay's Method Ralph Read's Method |
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| Lesson-52-244 | Telepathic Deck: One way force, Svengali, others Mentalism | Henry Hardin, Burling Hull, Dr. Ford Rogers, Harlan Tarbell | ||
| Lesson-52-246 | Psychic Paper: Guessed number found printed on colored paper | Mentalism | H.S. Paine | |
| Lesson-52-248 | The Quick and the Dead: Center tear approach, carbon paper, others | Mentalism | Henry Hardin | |
| Lesson-52-259 | Ralph Read's Tapping Pencil: Pencil held still 'taps' | Mentalism | Ralph Read | |
| The Thumb Tie | ||||
| Lesson-53-264 | Ten-Ichi Tump Tie: full routine | Thumb Tie | Ten-Ichi | |
| Lesson-53-271 | Modernized: Uses one cord instead of two | Thumb Tie | ||
| Lesson-53-272 | Tip Top Thumb Tie: ties thumbs first | Thumb Tie | ||
| Lesson-53-274 | Chow Sen Thumb Tie | Thumb Tie | Harlan Tarbell | |
| Lesson-53-275 | Frank Ducot Thumb Tie: uses two cords | Thumb Tie | Frank Ducrot | |
| Lesson-53-276 | Jack Miller Thumb Tie: Frank Ducot variation | Thumb Tie | Jack Miller | |
| Lesson-53-277 | Tarbell's Simplex | Thumb Tie | Harlan Tarbell | |
| Lesson-53-279 | Tarbell's Li King | Thumb Tie | Harlan Tarbell | |
| Lesson-53-280 | Tarbell Tape Tie | Thumb Tie | Harlan Tarbell | |
| Lesson-53-281 | Tarbell's Chinese Thumb Tie: tape, not really tied | Thumb Tie | Harlan Tarbell | |
| Lesson-53-283 | Mel Forrester's Rubber Band | Thumb Tie | Mel Forrester | |
| Chinese Linking Rings | ||||
| Lesson-54-284 | Eugene Laurant 11 ring routine (2 extra singles, 1 extra key). Uses 1 key to show 'dead' sound when rung. Rings are linked, examined, clash link, figures, all unlink at end. | Linking Rings | Eugene Laurant | |
| Lesson-54-306 | Weber's Emergency Routine: 2 singles: chain of 2, no key | Linking Rings | Weber | |
| Lesson-54-311 | Jack Miller's Spinning Rings: flourish | Linking Rings | Jack Miller | |
| Lesson-54-312 | Tommy Dowd's Odin Ring Count: a 4 ring count | Linking Rings | Tommy Down | |
| Lesson-54-314 | Tommy Dowd's spinning ring unlink | Linking Rings | Tommy Down | |
| Magic with Ribbon | ||||
| Lesson-55-317 | Cut and Restored Ribbon. | Ribbon | ||
| Lesson-55-320 | Card on Ribbon Mystery: thru envelope | Ribbon | ||
| Lesson-55-323 | Dollar Bill on Ribbon: as above Coin, Money | Ribbon | ||
| Lesson-55-326 | Ghostly Ribbon: ribbon cut through envelope | Ribbon | Douglas Dexter | |
| Lesson-55-328 | Spirit Communication: Magic slate type prediction | Ribbon | Mentalism | |
| Lesson-55-333 | A Wandering Ribbon: pink ribbon vanishes, appears in blue envelope | Ribbon | ||
| Lesson-55-335 | King Solomon's Marriage Bands: Afghan bands | Ribbon | ||
| Lesson-55-337 | Whamsy Cut and Restored Ribbon: duplicate | Ribbon | Arthur Leroy | |
| Silken Trickery | ||||
| Lesson-56-341 | Carlyle's 20th Century Silks: 3rd silk appears knotted between | Silk | Carlyle (Lyle F. Laughlin) | |
| Lesson-56-344 | Al Baker's 20th Century Silks: Uses dye tube, black art well | Silk | Al Baker | |
| Lesson-56-347 | Al Baker's Sympathetic Silks: 2 methods | Silk | Al Baker | |
| Lesson-56-350 | A Remarkable Giant: ribbon becomes tied between silks | Silk | William Larsen & T. Page Wright | |
| Lesson-56-352 | Jack Miller's Knotty Silk: dissolving and appearing knot | Silk | Jack Miller | |
| Lesson-56-355 | Penetrative Silks: silk penetrates bar | Silk | ||
| Lesson-56-357 | Cords of Phantasia: Grandma's Necklace for stage, 3 methods | Silk | Ottokar Fischer | |
| Lesson-56-365 | Instant Handkerchief Spread: fold to produce large silk | John Booth | ||
| Lesson-56-366 | Flash Silk Production | Silk | Harlan Tarbell | |
| Lesson-56-368 | Carlyle's One Hand Silk Production: special gimmick | Silk | Carlyle (Lyle F. Laughlin) | |
| Lesson-56-370 | Carlyle's Multiple Silk Production: 1-2-3-5-8! Special pockets | Silk | Carlyle (Lyle F. Laughlin) | |
| Slate Mysteries | ||||
| Lesson-57-375 | Double Slate Writing: Flap slate | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-57-375 | Two Messages on Slates: how to force 2 messages | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-57-383 | Al Baker Slip of Paper Force: envelopes | Mentalism | Al Baker | |
| Lesson-57-386 | Numbered Double Slate Writing | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-57-389 | Simplex Double Slates: no flap | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-57-390 | Single Slate Writing: flap | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-57-391 | Transfer Single Slate Writing | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-57-392 | A Visible Message: onion juice | Mentalism | Chung Ling Soo | |
| Lesson-57-392 | Dobrin's Double Locking Slate: hinged flap | Mentalism | Harry Dobrin | |
| Lesson-57-394 | Larsen and Wright Double Message | Mentalism | William Larsen and T. Page Wright | |
| Lesson-57-396 | Jack Miller Slate Routine: 2 slates | Mentalism | Jack Miller | |
| Lesson-57-399 | Multiple Slate Writing | Mentalism | Roger Barkann | |
| Lesson-57-402 | A Spooky Message | Mentalism | Walter Gibson | |
| Lesson-57-406 | Message on Paper: On paper between slates | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-57-408 | Chinese Comedy Slate Message | Mentalism | ||
| Lesson-57-411 | White Chalk of Many Colors | Mentalism | ||
| Illusions | ||||
| Lesson-58-413 | David Bamberg's The Girl From the Light Illusions | Illusion | David Bamberg | |
The Tarbell Course in Magic, written and illustrated by Harlan Tarbell, edited by Bruce Elliott, is published by Louis Tannen, New York, NY, © 1954