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...heater shows. The first "ombres chinoises" were presented in Paris in 1776 by Dominique Séraphin, but this was using two-dimensional cut-out "puppets" ...ome to become a magician and tight rope walker. Trewey popularized the art by making silhouettes of famous personalities with his hands. In 1889, he join

.... As an author he used many pseudonyms and wrote a number of instructional books on folkloric divination such as card-reading, and on puzzles, both under hi Pearson's books on magic were originally very inexpensive, at only one shilling or two shil

*[[J. B. Bobo]], author of 4 magic books, is born, Feb 11 *[[Henry Hay]], author of many classic books on magic for beginners, is born ''June Barrows Mussey'', Mar 30

...that it will operate as a spring to the industry of performers in that art by compelling them to some new inventions to deceive and amuse us." ...Physics, or Explanation of His Tricks."<ref> CHEVALIER PINETTI—CONJURER BY HENRY RIDGELY EVANS, Sphinx, June 1902</ref>