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− | | author = Merbak
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− | | pub_date = 1941
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− | | publisher = Briton Publications Ltd.
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− | | language = English
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− | | pages = 71
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− | '''Magical Revelations''' by Merbak ([[J. Albert Briggs]], identified as the author of "Dinkum Magic," is self-described as "A book of exceptional magic."
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− | == Foreword ==
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− | AN APPRECIATION
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− | BY [[HERBERT HOLMES]].
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− | Merbak, who in private life is perhaps better known as
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− | J. Albert Briggs, is undoubtedly the outstanding figure in Australian Magic.
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− | For more than twenty years he has been a prolific writer on magical subjects; our leading manufacturer of tricks and
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− | illusions; and a performer whose entertainments are the last word in surprise and novelty.
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− | When I read the MSS. of this volume I did not imagine
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− | there could be so many good things left to divulge, and I am sure readers will agree with me that the title of the book
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− | is well chosen.
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− | I have personally seen Merbak perform many of the
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− | tricks described in this book, and so completely mystifying were they, that the simple explanations are indeed a revelation. In commending the volume to the magical fraternity, I do so in the hope that it will be the forerunner of many
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− | others from his pen. For, Merbak's knowledge of Magic
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− | is so extensive, that it is like a well that never runs dry.
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− | H.H.
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− | == Contents ==
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− | * Table of Contents
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− | PARLOUR AND POCKET TRICKS.
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− | * The Annihilated Glass
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− | * The Best Torn and Restored Newspaper
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− | * The Floating and Vanishing Glass
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− | * The Needle Through the Thumb
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− | * The Card and Crystal
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− | * Marvellous Divination
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− | * The Card and Ribbon
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− | * Swallowing Razor Blades
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− | * The Pierced Cigarette
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− | * Cutting a Capstan in Two
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− | STAGE TRICKS.
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− | * The Jewel
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− | * Blowing Silks Through the Dye Tube
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− | * "Cherchez La Femme"
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− | * The "Master" Four-Ace Trick
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− | * A Chop Suey Nightmare
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− | * Babes in the Wood
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− | * The Bathing Belle
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− | * The Alarming Case
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− | * The Dante Rope Trick
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− | * The Watch Du Diable
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− | * Production of a Giant Clock
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− | * Where Did That One Go?
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− | * A Comedy With the Egg Bag
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− | * Dante's Ropes and Silks
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− | * "Merbak's" Trays and Silks
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− | * The Japanese Mask
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− | * A New Flower Growing
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− | * Resurrection
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− | * Sympathetic Silks
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− | * The Five of Diamonds
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− | ILLUSIONS.
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− | * "Mirax," the Ghost Picture
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− | * The Floating Ball
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− | * The Million Dollar Mystery
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− | * The Girl and the Ladder
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− | * Cheating the Hangman
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− | * Secrets of the Great Rifle Act
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− | * Walking from a Shadow
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− | * The Merry Widow
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− | * The Show of Hands
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