"Leaves" From Hilliard Notebooks - Floyd Thayer [52 Weeks Project - #17]

J.N. HILLIARD'S LOST NOTES!

Book #17 in the 52 Weeks Project

John "Northern" Hilliard became immortalized as the author of one of the most important magic books of the 20th Century: Greater Magic.

He was a very successful writer and journalist who toured the world with Thurston for 10 years, and thanks to that association was able to meet the greatest magicians of his time - and obtain their secrets.

About two decades before that, T. Nelson Down published one of the most important magic books of the era in 1909: "The Art of Magic" - ghost-written by Hilliard. The book was the "Tarbell" of that era and became an instant classic.

Between the publishing of those 2 great books, Hilliard published a number of articles in Floyd Thayer's "Magical Bulletin" with material that was not included in The Art of Magic, and was reserved "for the second book". Those articles were afterward compiled in this little booklet and published for the enjoyment of magicians the world over.

CONTENTS

Foreword

A personal note by way of introduction

THE TRIPLE MYSTERY - 3 selected cards found by the spectators. Impromptu.

THE CHINESE RINGS - Special handlings for the Linking Rings

THE QUICK OR THE DEAD - a complete script and presentation for a psychological mystery to discover the "dead". A lesson in how to elevate a simple effect to a complete theatrical experience.

ROLL YOUR OWN - "tobacco" and a cigarette paper pushed into the hand turn into a real cigarette - hands shown empty.

Every effect is very thoroughly explained and described.