![]() ![]() It is this posthumous work which is now offered to the public. Death unhappily prevented his carrying his design into execution but he left behind him materials sufficient, if not, as he had wished, for an exhaustive treatise on the art of conjuring, at least for the compilation of a new work of a highly interesting character. In the volume published by Robert-Houdin under the title of Les Secrets de la Prestidigiration et de la Magie,* the author expressed his intention of issuing at an early date a sequel to that work. Professor Hoffmann's Preface to the Original Edition The Secrets of Stage Conjuring is an English version of Robert-Houdin's Magie et physique amusante, translated by Professor Hoffmann. ![]()
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