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Reviewed in [[Genii 1945 January]] | Reviewed in [[Genii 1945 January]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Content == | ||
+ | * Introduction | ||
+ | * Clearing up a puzzle | ||
+ | * Art versus science | ||
+ | * The reason for a book of fundamentals | ||
+ | * Where this work came from | ||
+ | * Old things are best | ||
+ | * Bromides | ||
+ | * Time and tide | ||
+ | * Of words and style and other trivialities | ||
+ | == Chapter I: Classification of Effects == | ||
+ | * Thousands from so few | ||
+ | * Trick and effect | ||
+ | * Classification of card effects, by T Page Wright | ||
+ | * Conjuring feats, as Mr Sharpe sees them | ||
+ | * Fundamental effects, through Mr Freer's eyes | ||
+ | * And nineteen effects for this work | ||
+ | * Their definitions | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter II: Upon These Fundamentals We Stand == | ||
+ | * A fertile field for argument | ||
+ | * You may lead a horse to water | ||
+ | * What you may use | ||
+ | * What you may do | ||
+ | * Time | ||
+ | * Conditions | ||
+ | * Of repetitions and the like | ||
+ | * Are secrets important? | ||
+ | * But twenty from many | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter III: The Beginning of Appearance == | ||
+ | * Three ways of looking for tricks | ||
+ | * From a secret place while diverted | ||
+ | * The form | ||
+ | * The detachable portion | ||
+ | * Repeating | ||
+ | * The thread, elastic and spring pulls | ||
+ | * Decanters to spiders' webs | ||
+ | * Spring levers and balloons | ||
+ | * Guided gravity | ||
+ | * Revolving panels | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter IV: Appearances, Continued == | ||
+ | * Secret compartments | ||
+ | * Double bottoms double sides | ||
+ | * Movable compartments | ||
+ | * Mirrors | ||
+ | * Cast iron elephants | ||
+ | * Two compartments, either of which may become secret | ||
+ | * Concealed by an accessory | ||
+ | * Remote places | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter V: Appearances, Again == | ||
+ | * Expansibility | ||
+ | * Eggs and chickens | ||
+ | * Covering which blends with the background | ||
+ | * Sliding slats | ||
+ | * Loading while concealed by an accessory | ||
+ | * Chemicals | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter VI: Appearances, Still Going On == | ||
+ | * Secret ingress | ||
+ | * Secret passageways | ||
+ | * Optical projection | ||
+ | * Hollow shells | ||
+ | * Secret exchange | ||
+ | * Pretense | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter VII: The Vanish == | ||
+ | * Opposites | ||
+ | * Disposal while distracted | ||
+ | * Disposal and form | ||
+ | * Detachable portions for vanish | ||
+ | * Pulls and the flying cage | ||
+ | * Improvements | ||
+ | * Secret compartments again | ||
+ | * Even two secret compartments | ||
+ | * Shells | ||
+ | * Collapsibility | ||
+ | * Covering to oblivion | ||
+ | * Gone behind an accessory | ||
+ | * Black art | ||
+ | * Chemistry | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter VIII: Vanish, Continuing == | ||
+ | * Gone like the malefactors | ||
+ | * Secret passageways | ||
+ | * Optics | ||
+ | * Shells | ||
+ | * Reversing the appearance principle | ||
+ | * Substitutions | ||
+ | * Pretense | ||
+ | * Disguise | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter IX: Transpositions == | ||
+ | * Combination vanish and appearance | ||
+ | * Clocks that pass | ||
+ | * Duplicates While attention is away Change in proximate surroundings | ||
+ | * Secret exchange | ||
+ | * Flaps | ||
+ | * Compound transpositions | ||
+ | * Refinements | ||
+ | * Difliculties of classification | ||
+ | * Disguise with a die | ||
+ | * Shells and buttons | ||
+ | * Concealed conveyance | ||
+ | * Pretense | ||
+ | * The invisible man | ||
+ | * Complex transpositions | ||
+ | * And other applications | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter X: Transformations == | ||
+ | * Combination vanish and appearance | ||
+ | * Dual identity | ||
+ | * Bricks, billiard balls and canes | ||
+ | * Substitution | ||
+ | * Shells | ||
+ | * Concealment | ||
+ | * Bold tactics | ||
+ | * Pulls Coverings | ||
+ | * Secret compartments and disguise | ||
+ | * The disappearing princess | ||
+ | * Concealment and secret passageways | ||
+ | * Disguise | ||
+ | * Relative surroundings | ||
+ | * Bulk, blinds and reversible panels | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XI: Penetration == | ||
+ | * Can matter pass through matter? | ||
+ | * The very few ways | ||
+ | * Secret passageway | ||
+ | * Around | ||
+ | * Duplicates | ||
+ | * New for old | ||
+ | * Needles to rings | ||
+ | * Substitution | ||
+ | * Two obstacles and two Parts | ||
+ | * Magnets | ||
+ | * Collapsibility | ||
+ | * Pretense | ||
+ | * Implication | ||
+ | * Random examples | ||
+ | * Princess, phantoms, blocks, ghosts, glasses, spokes, boxes | ||
+ | * Optics, ties | ||
+ | * Grandmother's contribution | ||
+ | * Passageways in profusion | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XII: Restoration == | ||
+ | * Two conditions | ||
+ | * Dupes again | ||
+ | * Pretense | ||
+ | * Disguise | ||
+ | * Six ways | ||
+ | * Cremation, decapitation, dismemberment and other gory details | ||
+ | * Paper | ||
+ | * Valuables | ||
+ | * Mr Kolar's String | ||
+ | * Ropes | ||
+ | * Portions | ||
+ | * Rubber bands, string, cards, plates, ribbons, neckties, handkerchiefs, ropes | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XIII: Animation == | ||
+ | * Invisible connection | ||
+ | * Concealed connection | ||
+ | * Clockworks | ||
+ | * Stored up power | ||
+ | * Indirect connections | ||
+ | * Chemicals | ||
+ | * Secret compartments | ||
+ | * Human power | ||
+ | * Gravity | ||
+ | * Centers of gravity | ||
+ | * Balance | ||
+ | * Pendulums, handkerchiefs | ||
+ | * Implication with silk | ||
+ | * Automata | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XIV: Anti-Gravithy == | ||
+ | * Suspension | ||
+ | * Concealed support | ||
+ | * Shifted center of gravity | ||
+ | * Rising figures | ||
+ | * Pianos | ||
+ | * Invisible support | ||
+ | * Ashrah | ||
+ | * Magnetic repulsion | ||
+ | * Atmospheric pressure | ||
+ | * Threads | ||
+ | * Concealed support again | ||
+ | * Reels | ||
+ | * Hair | ||
+ | * Magnetic attraction | ||
+ | * Weight | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XV: Attraction == | ||
+ | * Invisible support | ||
+ | * Concealed support | ||
+ | * Magnetism | ||
+ | * Ad-hesion | ||
+ | * Secret grips | ||
+ | * Canes, cigarettes, tables, vases | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XVI: Sympathetic Reactions == | ||
+ | * No common characteristics | ||
+ | * Silks | ||
+ | * You do as I do | ||
+ | * Interpretations identify | ||
+ | * Effects really in other categories | ||
+ | * Candles | ||
+ | * Productions | ||
+ | * Cards and saucers | ||
+ | * Cards | ||
+ | * Flocks of sympathy tricks | ||
+ | * Suggestions on how to do | ||
+ | * Suggested effects | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XVII: Invulnerability == | ||
+ | * Fire eating, cooking steaks and walking on swords | ||
+ | * Rolling in a barrel of glass | ||
+ | * Kids and a bed of spikes | ||
+ | * In a cake of ice | ||
+ | * Traps | ||
+ | * Bullet catching | ||
+ | * Stretching | ||
+ | * Electrocution | ||
+ | * Methods unique to the problem | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XVIII: Physical Anomaly == | ||
+ | * Shadows | ||
+ | * Seeing through matter | ||
+ | * Living heads | ||
+ | * Pencils, dollar bills and other contradictions | ||
+ | * Other suggestions of violated physical laws | ||
+ | * Time | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XIX: Spectator Failure == | ||
+ | * An impossible game | ||
+ | * Shells and cards | ||
+ | * Rattle bars, foo cans, ropes and barrels | ||
+ | * Conveyance, substitution, disguise, duplicates | ||
+ | * Running up hands, bank nights, bingo, spell | ||
+ | * downs | ||
+ | * Puzzles | ||
+ | * Interpretation of transformation and transposition effects | ||
+ | * Threading contest | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XX: Control == | ||
+ | * A fine line between animation and control | ||
+ | * Clocks, hands, bells and skulls John Mulholland's bell | ||
+ | * Coins, hands and Bill Larsen's slipper | ||
+ | * Drumsticks and snakes | ||
+ | * Balls and spelling | ||
+ | * Sand and a trick with liquids | ||
+ | * Ducks and dogs | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXI: Identification == | ||
+ | * Discovery | ||
+ | * How | ||
+ | * Marks Delay | ||
+ | * Psychology | ||
+ | * Tags, crayons, sticks | ||
+ | * Magnetic methods Keys | ||
+ | * Arrangements | ||
+ | * Mathematics | ||
+ | * Latin | ||
+ | * Indirect marks | ||
+ | * Pyramids, discs, ballot boxes, clocks and lead pencils | ||
+ | * Living and dead | ||
+ | * Luminous paint | ||
+ | * Glimpses | ||
+ | * Forces | ||
+ | * Exchange | ||
+ | * Mind reading, cards and telephones | ||
+ | * Indirect keys | ||
+ | * Confederates Codes | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXII: Thought Reading == | ||
+ | * Taken from the subject | ||
+ | * Reading the recorded thought How to manage a glimpse | ||
+ | * One-ahead, extracting the card, and transparencies | ||
+ | * Exchanges Stealing the note Feeling the writing | ||
+ | * Secret impressions Carbon and wax | ||
+ | * Contact mind reading | ||
+ | * Microphones | ||
+ | * Reading messages in the dark | ||
+ | * Confederates | ||
+ | * Forced thought | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXIII: Thought Transference == | ||
+ | * Projected to the receiver | ||
+ | * Codes audible and visible Memorized routines | ||
+ | * Indirect codes | ||
+ | * Position and felt codes | ||
+ | * Specialization Forcing | ||
+ | * Confederacy Secret writing | ||
+ | * Delayed commitment | ||
+ | * Contact mind reading | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXIV: Predictions == | ||
+ | * Foretelling the future | ||
+ | * Forcing | ||
+ | * Delayed commitment | ||
+ | * Confederacy | ||
+ | * Slates to books | ||
+ | * Nail writers Pocket writing | ||
+ | * Indexes and filing devices | ||
+ | * Substitution | ||
+ | * Providing for every contingency | ||
+ | * Locked chests, sealed jars and sealed envelopes | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXV: Extra-Sensory Perception == | ||
+ | * Spectacular delusions | ||
+ | * Seeing with the fingertips | ||
+ | * Detection other than claimed | ||
+ | * Blindfolds | ||
+ | * Secret identifications | ||
+ | * Seeing through welded steel plates | ||
+ | * Detection the FBI couldn't use | ||
+ | * Defective impediment | ||
+ | * Interpretation again | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXVI: Pseudo Skill == | ||
+ | * Imitations of skill | ||
+ | * Not mysteries as to method | ||
+ | * Memory | ||
+ | * Balancing eggs | ||
+ | * Gambling demonstrations | ||
+ | * Lighting matches in mid air | ||
+ | * Pocket picking | ||
+ | * Cube root | ||
+ | * Fans | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXVII: The Invention of New Trick Plots == | ||
+ | * A numbering system | ||
+ | * Drawing lots for a new trick | ||
+ | * Make added lists | ||
+ | * Needles, knitting and otherwise | ||
+ | * Pitchers, pails and decorations | ||
+ | * Sacks, birds and words | ||
+ | * Arbitrary selections force the imagination | ||
+ | * Original trick Plots | ||
+ | * Original routines | ||
+ | * Generalities broaden the field | ||
+ | * Original combinations | ||
+ | * Cards and The Trick Brain | ||
+ | * Cards on a plate | ||
+ | * Practical experience | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXVIII: Methods for New Trick Plots == | ||
+ | * Basic methods | ||
+ | * Generalized for stimulation | ||
+ | * Why this book was written | ||
+ | * The "how" of the needles | ||
+ | * A new trick: Needles to packet | ||
+ | * What flower do you prefer? | ||
+ | * Say it with flowers | ||
+ | * Adaptation | ||
+ | * Method selection | ||
+ | * Animated sympathetic rope | ||
+ | * Weed out those you don't like | ||
+ | * The Trick Brain does many things | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXIX: The Trick Brain == | ||
+ | * Introducing The Trick Brain in person | ||
+ | * What it is | ||
+ | * How it works | ||
+ | * Lists of basic effects | ||
+ | * List of essential factors | ||
+ | * Lists of objects | ||
+ | * Lists of basic methods | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXX: Techniques of Invension == | ||
+ | * How various inventors attack the thirty-card trick | ||
+ | * Leipzig, Buckley Baker, Zens, Scarne Vernon | ||
+ | * Card to the Pocketbook by various methods | ||
+ | * The Diminishing Cards by Bertram Chapender, Stanyon, Baker and Walsh | ||
+ | * The Bill In Cigarette by many including Rae, Thayer, Ervin, Davenport | ||
+ | * The wands | ||
+ | * Sawing a woman | ||
+ | * Six card repeat | ||
+ | * Many effects with blocks | ||
+ | * Whiskey glasses | ||
+ | * Trunk tricks | ||
+ | * How method is shaped by style and circumstances | ||
+ | * The linking rings | ||
+ | * Conditions and capabilities | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXXI: Sleight-of-Hand Translation == | ||
+ | * Mechanical methods apply to sleight-of-hand performers | ||
+ | * The hand is a mechanical device | ||
+ | * Secret hiding places | ||
+ | * Reasoning out methods | ||
+ | * Bouquet to silk | ||
+ | * Step-by-step analysis | ||
+ | * Forms, detachable portions, pulls, secret compartments, shells | ||
+ | * The hands as accessories | ||
+ | * Cards as accessories | ||
+ | * Coverings which blend, secret passageways secret exchange | ||
+ | * Disguise, secret compartments | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXXII: New Lamps for Old == | ||
+ | * Other valuable uses for The Trick Brain | ||
+ | * How tricks may be changed in effect | ||
+ | * Interpretation again | ||
+ | * Shelves full of unused tricks and devices | ||
+ | * Reclaiming them for new purposes and uses | ||
+ | * An example with The Passe Passe Bottles | ||
+ | * Analyzing what they really may be | ||
+ | * An example with the mirror glass | ||
+ | * What to look for and how The Trick Brain will suggest new uses | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXXIII: The Ultimate Objective == | ||
+ | * Marshaling the elements of the mechanics of magic | ||
+ | * Disagreements are expected | ||
+ | * Reduction to final elements is intended | ||
+ | * The foundations of mechanical magic | ||
+ | * Tools are tricks | ||
+ | * Technique of performance | ||
+ | * Overcrowded workshops and unskilled mechanics | ||
+ | * All the tricks you will ever need | ||
+ | * Mechanics not profound | ||
+ | * Fundamentals all here | ||
+ | * A list of the fifty four elements | ||
+ | * Are these the true secrets of magic? | ||
+ | * What of the mind? | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Chapter XXXIV: Glossary Of Definitions Of Fundamental Expedients == | ||
+ | |||
+ | {{Magicref}} | ||
+ | |||
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Revision as of 19:13, 6 March 2023
The Trick Brain | |
Author | Dariel Fitzkee |
---|---|
Publisher | Saint Raphael House |
Publication Date | 1944 |
Language | English |
Preceded by | Showmanship for Magicians |
Followed by | Magic by Misdirection |
The Trick Brain was part of Fitzkee's trilogy which also included Showmanship for Magicians and Magic by Misdirection.
Reviewed in Genii 1945 January
Content
- Introduction
- Clearing up a puzzle
- Art versus science
- The reason for a book of fundamentals
- Where this work came from
- Old things are best
- Bromides
- Time and tide
- Of words and style and other trivialities
== Chapter I: Classification of Effects ==
- Thousands from so few
- Trick and effect
- Classification of card effects, by T Page Wright
- Conjuring feats, as Mr Sharpe sees them
- Fundamental effects, through Mr Freer's eyes
- And nineteen effects for this work
- Their definitions
== Chapter II: Upon These Fundamentals We Stand ==
- A fertile field for argument
- You may lead a horse to water
- What you may use
- What you may do
- Time
- Conditions
- Of repetitions and the like
- Are secrets important?
- But twenty from many
== Chapter III: The Beginning of Appearance ==
- Three ways of looking for tricks
- From a secret place while diverted
- The form
- The detachable portion
- Repeating
- The thread, elastic and spring pulls
- Decanters to spiders' webs
- Spring levers and balloons
- Guided gravity
- Revolving panels
== Chapter IV: Appearances, Continued ==
- Secret compartments
- Double bottoms double sides
- Movable compartments
- Mirrors
- Cast iron elephants
- Two compartments, either of which may become secret
- Concealed by an accessory
- Remote places
== Chapter V: Appearances, Again ==
- Expansibility
- Eggs and chickens
- Covering which blends with the background
- Sliding slats
- Loading while concealed by an accessory
- Chemicals
== Chapter VI: Appearances, Still Going On ==
- Secret ingress
- Secret passageways
- Optical projection
- Hollow shells
- Secret exchange
- Pretense
== Chapter VII: The Vanish ==
- Opposites
- Disposal while distracted
- Disposal and form
- Detachable portions for vanish
- Pulls and the flying cage
- Improvements
- Secret compartments again
- Even two secret compartments
- Shells
- Collapsibility
- Covering to oblivion
- Gone behind an accessory
- Black art
- Chemistry
== Chapter VIII: Vanish, Continuing ==
- Gone like the malefactors
- Secret passageways
- Optics
- Shells
- Reversing the appearance principle
- Substitutions
- Pretense
- Disguise
== Chapter IX: Transpositions ==
- Combination vanish and appearance
- Clocks that pass
- Duplicates While attention is away Change in proximate surroundings
- Secret exchange
- Flaps
- Compound transpositions
- Refinements
- Difliculties of classification
- Disguise with a die
- Shells and buttons
- Concealed conveyance
- Pretense
- The invisible man
- Complex transpositions
- And other applications
== Chapter X: Transformations ==
- Combination vanish and appearance
- Dual identity
- Bricks, billiard balls and canes
- Substitution
- Shells
- Concealment
- Bold tactics
- Pulls Coverings
- Secret compartments and disguise
- The disappearing princess
- Concealment and secret passageways
- Disguise
- Relative surroundings
- Bulk, blinds and reversible panels
== Chapter XI: Penetration ==
- Can matter pass through matter?
- The very few ways
- Secret passageway
- Around
- Duplicates
- New for old
- Needles to rings
- Substitution
- Two obstacles and two Parts
- Magnets
- Collapsibility
- Pretense
- Implication
- Random examples
- Princess, phantoms, blocks, ghosts, glasses, spokes, boxes
- Optics, ties
- Grandmother's contribution
- Passageways in profusion
== Chapter XII: Restoration ==
- Two conditions
- Dupes again
- Pretense
- Disguise
- Six ways
- Cremation, decapitation, dismemberment and other gory details
- Paper
- Valuables
- Mr Kolar's String
- Ropes
- Portions
- Rubber bands, string, cards, plates, ribbons, neckties, handkerchiefs, ropes
== Chapter XIII: Animation ==
- Invisible connection
- Concealed connection
- Clockworks
- Stored up power
- Indirect connections
- Chemicals
- Secret compartments
- Human power
- Gravity
- Centers of gravity
- Balance
- Pendulums, handkerchiefs
- Implication with silk
- Automata
== Chapter XIV: Anti-Gravithy ==
- Suspension
- Concealed support
- Shifted center of gravity
- Rising figures
- Pianos
- Invisible support
- Ashrah
- Magnetic repulsion
- Atmospheric pressure
- Threads
- Concealed support again
- Reels
- Hair
- Magnetic attraction
- Weight
== Chapter XV: Attraction ==
- Invisible support
- Concealed support
- Magnetism
- Ad-hesion
- Secret grips
- Canes, cigarettes, tables, vases
== Chapter XVI: Sympathetic Reactions ==
- No common characteristics
- Silks
- You do as I do
- Interpretations identify
- Effects really in other categories
- Candles
- Productions
- Cards and saucers
- Cards
- Flocks of sympathy tricks
- Suggestions on how to do
- Suggested effects
== Chapter XVII: Invulnerability ==
- Fire eating, cooking steaks and walking on swords
- Rolling in a barrel of glass
- Kids and a bed of spikes
- In a cake of ice
- Traps
- Bullet catching
- Stretching
- Electrocution
- Methods unique to the problem
== Chapter XVIII: Physical Anomaly ==
- Shadows
- Seeing through matter
- Living heads
- Pencils, dollar bills and other contradictions
- Other suggestions of violated physical laws
- Time
== Chapter XIX: Spectator Failure ==
- An impossible game
- Shells and cards
- Rattle bars, foo cans, ropes and barrels
- Conveyance, substitution, disguise, duplicates
- Running up hands, bank nights, bingo, spell
- downs
- Puzzles
- Interpretation of transformation and transposition effects
- Threading contest
== Chapter XX: Control ==
- A fine line between animation and control
- Clocks, hands, bells and skulls John Mulholland's bell
- Coins, hands and Bill Larsen's slipper
- Drumsticks and snakes
- Balls and spelling
- Sand and a trick with liquids
- Ducks and dogs
== Chapter XXI: Identification ==
- Discovery
- How
- Marks Delay
- Psychology
- Tags, crayons, sticks
- Magnetic methods Keys
- Arrangements
- Mathematics
- Latin
- Indirect marks
- Pyramids, discs, ballot boxes, clocks and lead pencils
- Living and dead
- Luminous paint
- Glimpses
- Forces
- Exchange
- Mind reading, cards and telephones
- Indirect keys
- Confederates Codes
== Chapter XXII: Thought Reading ==
- Taken from the subject
- Reading the recorded thought How to manage a glimpse
- One-ahead, extracting the card, and transparencies
- Exchanges Stealing the note Feeling the writing
- Secret impressions Carbon and wax
- Contact mind reading
- Microphones
- Reading messages in the dark
- Confederates
- Forced thought
== Chapter XXIII: Thought Transference ==
- Projected to the receiver
- Codes audible and visible Memorized routines
- Indirect codes
- Position and felt codes
- Specialization Forcing
- Confederacy Secret writing
- Delayed commitment
- Contact mind reading
== Chapter XXIV: Predictions ==
- Foretelling the future
- Forcing
- Delayed commitment
- Confederacy
- Slates to books
- Nail writers Pocket writing
- Indexes and filing devices
- Substitution
- Providing for every contingency
- Locked chests, sealed jars and sealed envelopes
== Chapter XXV: Extra-Sensory Perception ==
- Spectacular delusions
- Seeing with the fingertips
- Detection other than claimed
- Blindfolds
- Secret identifications
- Seeing through welded steel plates
- Detection the FBI couldn't use
- Defective impediment
- Interpretation again
== Chapter XXVI: Pseudo Skill ==
- Imitations of skill
- Not mysteries as to method
- Memory
- Balancing eggs
- Gambling demonstrations
- Lighting matches in mid air
- Pocket picking
- Cube root
- Fans
== Chapter XXVII: The Invention of New Trick Plots ==
- A numbering system
- Drawing lots for a new trick
- Make added lists
- Needles, knitting and otherwise
- Pitchers, pails and decorations
- Sacks, birds and words
- Arbitrary selections force the imagination
- Original trick Plots
- Original routines
- Generalities broaden the field
- Original combinations
- Cards and The Trick Brain
- Cards on a plate
- Practical experience
== Chapter XXVIII: Methods for New Trick Plots ==
- Basic methods
- Generalized for stimulation
- Why this book was written
- The "how" of the needles
- A new trick: Needles to packet
- What flower do you prefer?
- Say it with flowers
- Adaptation
- Method selection
- Animated sympathetic rope
- Weed out those you don't like
- The Trick Brain does many things
== Chapter XXIX: The Trick Brain ==
- Introducing The Trick Brain in person
- What it is
- How it works
- Lists of basic effects
- List of essential factors
- Lists of objects
- Lists of basic methods
== Chapter XXX: Techniques of Invension ==
- How various inventors attack the thirty-card trick
- Leipzig, Buckley Baker, Zens, Scarne Vernon
- Card to the Pocketbook by various methods
- The Diminishing Cards by Bertram Chapender, Stanyon, Baker and Walsh
- The Bill In Cigarette by many including Rae, Thayer, Ervin, Davenport
- The wands
- Sawing a woman
- Six card repeat
- Many effects with blocks
- Whiskey glasses
- Trunk tricks
- How method is shaped by style and circumstances
- The linking rings
- Conditions and capabilities
== Chapter XXXI: Sleight-of-Hand Translation ==
- Mechanical methods apply to sleight-of-hand performers
- The hand is a mechanical device
- Secret hiding places
- Reasoning out methods
- Bouquet to silk
- Step-by-step analysis
- Forms, detachable portions, pulls, secret compartments, shells
- The hands as accessories
- Cards as accessories
- Coverings which blend, secret passageways secret exchange
- Disguise, secret compartments
== Chapter XXXII: New Lamps for Old ==
- Other valuable uses for The Trick Brain
- How tricks may be changed in effect
- Interpretation again
- Shelves full of unused tricks and devices
- Reclaiming them for new purposes and uses
- An example with The Passe Passe Bottles
- Analyzing what they really may be
- An example with the mirror glass
- What to look for and how The Trick Brain will suggest new uses
== Chapter XXXIII: The Ultimate Objective ==
- Marshaling the elements of the mechanics of magic
- Disagreements are expected
- Reduction to final elements is intended
- The foundations of mechanical magic
- Tools are tricks
- Technique of performance
- Overcrowded workshops and unskilled mechanics
- All the tricks you will ever need
- Mechanics not profound
- Fundamentals all here
- A list of the fifty four elements
- Are these the true secrets of magic?
- What of the mind?
== Chapter XXXIV: Glossary Of Definitions Of Fundamental Expedients ==
Courtesy of Doug A's Magic Book TOCs