17 MAY 1890, Page 26

Tricks with Cards, by Professor Hoffmann (F. Warne and Co.)

is described as a "complete manual of card-conjuring." The

author successively expounds the "principles of sleight-of-hand," tricks performed with "special cards" and "marked cards," card tricks not requiring sleight-of-hand, tricks performed with or without apparatus, and, finally, stage tricks. As far as such things can be taught by a book, they will be taught by this.