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