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Contents:

7 Introduction (Peter Warlock)

7 Section I Wherein the Performer, Using Ordinary Slates, Obtains Writing on One of the Slates

7 The Stack of Slates

8 Jardine Elllis Routine With Three Slates

12 Routine With Two Slates

13 Marlo's Routine

14 Showing Slates Blank on Both Sides

16 Section II Methods of Obtaining Writing on a Slate or Slates By the Use of a Flap or Flaps

17 Getting Rid of the Flap

19 The Locking Flap

20 Effects With the Flap Slate

20 A New Slant on a Slate Theme

23 A Method With Envelope

24 Slate of Thought

26 The Ghost of Little Willie

27 Cohesive Colors

32 The Famous Mathematician With Thayer or Shannon Slates

34 Another Presentation With Thayer or Shannon Slates

35 Second Method

38 Fred Hocking's Slate Mystery

38 Section III Methods of Obtaining Writing on a Slate by Chemical Means

43 The Proof of the Theory

46 Question and Answer

48 Section IV Methods of Obtaining Messages Not Covered in Previous Sections

48 J.F. Orrin's Method

49 The Chalk Thumb Tip

50 Max Hoden's Method

50 Verrall Wass' Method

51 Woodhouse Pitman's Method

53 Methods of Pseudo Mediums

53 Comedy Type Method - Flash Paper

54 Another Method

54 Section V The Use of Slates as an Auxiliary

55 The Secreting of Information

57 Conveyance of Information to an Assistant

57 Another Method

58 Third Method

59 As a Cover for Billet Reading

61 The Slate as a Drawing Board

61 A Second Routine

63 A Third Routine

64 The Slate as a Means for Switching Billets

64 Second Method

65 Bibliography