Water Wizardry: A collection of tricks in which water is the chief agent

A practical handbook of water-based conjuring that provides clear, hands-on instructions and twenty diagrams for effects ranging from light parlour amusements to more elaborate apparatus pieces. Chapters offer collections of little tricks, routines using hydrostatic tubes (including David Devant's method), passe-passe maneuvers, rice bowls, Indian sands, a dissolved-card effect, and miscellaneous transformations and vanishes such as the wine and water routine, vanishing water, and methods for producing liquids from paper or cotton. The emphasis is on sleight, secret preparations, timing, and stagecraft, with step-by-step directions aimed at safe and convincing presentation.