COMPILERS NOTE - In the pages of this book will be found an abundance of tricks, puzzles, and games of every sort and kind. The volume is indeed a mine of magic and amusement, rich enough to satisfy any one who loves to entertain or be entertained. No book of its kind has previously been published, and it would not have been possible to produce such a volume without drawing extensively on the work of such masters of their craft as Will Blyth, Nelson Downs, Louis Nikola, Arthur Ainslie, Harold C. King, John E. T. Clark, L. Widdop, J. K. Benson, Will Goldston, and Cyril Shields, the broadcasting conjurer. To these outstanding figures in the world of mystery and entertainment I offer my thanks. In choosing the tricks and puzzles for this book I have confined myself almost exclusively to those which require for their performance or solution no apparatus which cannot be found as part of the domestic equipment of the ordinary household. Matchsticks, water, paper, handkerchiefs, playing...