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Mediums under Other Names [from Dickens' All the Year Round]

Dickens, Charles. "Mediums under Other Names [from Dickens' All the Year Round]." New York Saturday Press, October 28, 1865, 203-205.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
journalism
Abstract

More examples of "jugglery" (illusions). The narrator references more recent performers including the famous Robert Houdin, who had recently released a book with some of his tricks.