This is an early publication by Will Goldston. It is a kind of smorgasbord of tricks, illusions, apparatus, hand shadows, plays, and advertisements for his Gamage Ltd.

• PREFACE
• CHAPTER I
  • Latest Method For Performing Soup Plate And Handkerchief Trick
  • The Egg, Card, And Wand Balance
  • A Novel Trick
  • A Good Slate Trick
  • The Wine Bottle And Card Trick
  • The Latest Pip Card Trick
  • A Neat Handkerchief Trick
  • Mystic Canteen And Birdcage
  • The Egg And Straw Balance
  • Handkerchief Spinning Trick
  • The Table Lifting
  • A New Slate Trick
  • Slate Writing
  • Twenty-Five Balloons Produced From A Hat
  • Rifle And Handkerchief Trick
  • An Effective Handkerchief Trick
  • Vanished Handkerchief Produced Dry From A Glass Of Wine
  • The Improved Servante Tray
  • The Hypnotised Wand
  • Gamage's Improved Thumb Tie
  • The Gamage Card And Die Illusion
  • The Vanishing Canaries And Cage Trick
  • Another Canary Cage
  • Wonderful Walking Egg
  • New Handkerchiefs Produced From Glass
  • The "Gamage" Duck Cylinder
  • Tao-Li-Tao
  • The Gamage Candle And Mystic Bouquet
  • Marvellous Production From An Empty Hat
  • The Vest Servante
  • The Wonderful Vanishing Die Box
  • Improved Vanishing Glass Tumbler
  • Lifting A Bowl Of Water
  • The Celebrated Chinese Egg Bag Trick
  • Card And Bouquet Illusion
  • Billiard Balls And Cue
  • A Good Glass Bowl Trick
  • The Secret Of Paper Tearing Trick
• CHAPTER II
  • The Improved Goldfish Illusion
  • The Goldston-Downs Bottle Illusion
  • The Talking Skull
  • The Stroubeika Illusion
  • Famous Ducks And Tub Illusion
  • The Wonderful Lady And Scale Illusion
  • Improved Vanishing Lady And Cage Illusion
  • The "Gamage" Flower Table
  • The Sudden Appearance Of A Lady In An Empty Box
  • The Mysterious Head Illusion
  • An Instantaneous Exchange
  • The "Gamage" Cage Illusion
  • The Laurie Cabinet Illusion
  • The Hewes Levitation
  • A Great Levitation
  • The Marvellous Clock Dial
  • Silent Second-Sight Act
  • The Ball And Plank Mystery
  • The Pillory Illusion
• CHAPTER III
  • All About The Magic Kettle
  • The Great Magic Kettle Act
  • The Magic Kettle To Hold Liquor
  • The Mystic Kettle
• CHAPTER IV
  • A Handcuff Trick For Test Work
  • Sack Trick
  • The Mokana Shoe
  • Latest And Best Fakes To Open Regulation Handcuffs And Leg-Irons
  • The Celebrated Trick Collar And Bolt
  • The Rope Trick
  • How To Fake Ordinary Handcuffs
  • The Goldston Packing Case
  • The Escape From A Tin Or Iron Trunk
  • The Barrel Illusion
  • Improved Iron Cage
  • The Improved Packing Case Mystery
  • The Fairy Handcuff King
• CHAPTER V
  • Hand Shadows And How To Work Them
  • The Nulite Shadow Gas Lamp And Stand
  • The Nulite Acetylene Shadow Lamp
  • Newest Shadow Apparatus
  • Shadows Without Apparatus
  • Shadows With Apparatus
  • A Laughable Picture
  • Ally Sloper Having A Shirker
  • Mr. And Mrs. Lockshen
  • Farmer Hayseed With Pipe
  • Woman Tasting Soup
  • Chef And Frying Pan
• CHAPTER VI
  • The Miser

1st edition 1905, 148 pages; PDF 108 pages.
word count: 26338 which is equivalent to 105 standard pages of text