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Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Add to Wishlist. If you have ever tried to do a card trick and failed, you know what it is to be embarrassed. You may try to cover up by doing a more difficult trick and fail again.
The way out of this dilemma, however, is not immediate, but it is reliable: a surer mastery of technique. This means the proper instruction book, and practice. In this definitive work on card technique, step-by-step instructions teach you the correct methods for the basic manipulations and the more advanced flourishes, and only then allow you to learn tricks.
Offering the most foolproof methods available, Jean Hugard and Fredrick Braue explain such basic manipulations as the palm, the shuffle, the lift, the side slip, the pass, the glimpse, the jog, and the reverse.
They detail various false deals, crimps, and changes and the more advanced execution needed for forces, fans, and the use of the prearranged deck. Slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. It concerns itself not with the means but the manner in which the means are employed.
To make clear the "manner" of employing the card-palm, the authors use ten pages of print which give information of a kind that may make all the difference between success and failure in mastering a technique, but which is often completely ignored by writers or dealt with so briefly as to be virtually worthless.
Other evidence of the Hugard-Braue teaching is found in the six pages on the technique of card forcing, the three pages on secret-counting, and indeed generally throughout the book. For these examples are typical of the conscientious, painstaking effort which has gone into the superior instruction that here awaits the serious student of card conjuring.
In this connection, we venture to quote a comment made in by Professor Hoffmann, in expressing his admiration for Robert-Houdin's Secrets of Conjuring and Magic. So far as card magic is concerned, we feel that the statement might be applied with equal appropriateness to Expert Card Technique.
Here are the theory and practice of magic brought down to earth and made understandable by means of concrete illustrations. Seldom if ever has the task been done so well as in these twenty-six pages. The advice here given has the sterling ring of authenticity.
It is doubtless true, as an ancient Roman once said, that "experience is more valuable than precept"; but while one is gaining one's own experience, it is sound policy to follow precept if it is as clearly based upon experience as is the Hugard-Braue advice on misdirection and presentation. On two points, however, we wish to register mild protests. We agree with the authors that patter should be written out and memorized word for word; but we question the advisability of later making "no attempt to repeat word for word what you have learned," on the theory that when you use it in actual performance "you will find that you will remember what to say and how to say it," even though "you may clothe these thoughts in new words.
Only by memorizing both his routine and his patter, and then sticking staunchly by them, will the magician be able to follow Hamlet's sage advice: "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. Hugard and Braue for their convincing case against confederacy. Our only regret is their suggestion that this is an issue "which each conjurer must decide for himself. As we have said before in reviews, and shall continue to say until the battle is won, the practice of confederacy is both bad ethics and bad business.
In dealing with so great a menace there can be no middle ground. Confederacy can find no justification, and is entitled to no quarter! To the earlier printings of this book are now added two new chapters, one by Dai Vernon and one by Dr. Jacob Daley. This new material will be of the greatest possible interest to all sleight-of-hand card conjurers, partly because it is new and partly because of the worldwide fame of these experts.
Vernon's chapter entitled A Lesson in Card Handling, consists of 15 pages and 16 illustrations. First come four pages of tips on top and bottom changes, a branch of card manipulation for which Mr. Vernon is famous. He then proceeds to explain Multiple Card Control, a procedure which enables the performer to have say three chosen cards replaced separately anywhere in the pack, and yet bring them together and keep them completely under control, so that they may be revealed individually in the order chosen and not in the reverse order.
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