... of magic. It is without doubt the finest thing of the kind in the world. He knows all the book dealers in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome. His scrap-books on magic make your eyes water with longing. The Svengalis still hold ...

... guard this verbal treasure. Neither princes nor potentates—not even the blandishments of Dr. Ellison, of scrap-book and library fame—can get it away from him. Dr. Mortimer, a dental surgeon of New York, an oldtime conjurer and raconteur—a frequenter of M ...