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Stodare's Fly - Notes; or, Conjuring Made Easy. By Colonel Stodare. (Routledge.)—How

to transfer an object from one hand to the other. while actually retaining it in the one ; to make a shilling pass into the- centre of a ball of Berlin wool, or walk about a table ; how to change a bowl of ink into clear water with gold-fish in it ; to cook pancakes ins. hat over some candles, and disgorge an Atlantic cable of paper shavings, such are the teachings of this volume. We can imagine few presents. that will be more popular with schoolboys who are home for the holi- days, and few that will cause more trouble to their fathers and mothers.