Hoffmann's Later Magic by Professor Hoffman

by Professor Hoffmann (As Professor Hoffmann)

Excerpt from Later Magic

I have further to record my great Obligation to Messrs. Hamley Brothers, the oldest and best-known firm of London dealers, for much useful information, and for valuable assistance in the way of lending apparatus for illustration. The editors of Mahatma and Die Zauberwelt kindly placed the contents of their columns at my disposal, and I have freely availed myself of their courtesy. Where the author of a given trick is known, I have given him the credit of the invention, but the discovery in such cases of the real Simon Pure is not always an easy matter. Till a conjuring trick has become a suc cess, nobody cares who invented it, but let it once catch on, and there are half a dozen claimants for the honour. If, therefore, I have unwittingly wronged any one in this particular, I trust he will accept my apology.

Genres: Magic

554 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1904

About the author

Professor Louis Hoffmann was born as Angelo John Lewis in London, England on 23 July 1839. He studied law at Oxford University and became a barrister in London.

During the early 1860s he learned magic from a book and became an amateur magician.

In 1876, under the pen name Professor Hoffman, he published Modern Magic to educate the public in how to become a magician, including how to perform sleight of hand tricks, as well as how to dress.

Although Lewis is primarily known for his non-fiction works, especially those on magic, he also wrote a significant amount of fiction.