Excerpt from Sealed Mysteries: Explaining the Latest Card, Mysteries and Spirit Tricks Made Public for the First Time, With Directions for Constructing Trick CardsOf late years many followers of professional callings, such as Law, Medicine, Politics, Science, Banking, and a surprising number Of the Ministry, have taken up the Art of Magic, realizing its value as a mental recreation aside from its fascinating entertaining quali ties. Salesmen and traveling men find it a material aid to business. All these, prefer magical effects of a seemingly impromptu nature.In this volume, the first publication devoted to the higher form of impromptu magic, the author and editor have endeavored to select only the finest and most subtle of the many tricks of this nature, Of recent invention, which have never before appeared in print.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.