Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Ambassador, Author, and Conjurer

A man may not only take his own life, by writing his autobiography, without committing felo de se, but may carry himself into future time by producing a book which the world will not willingly' let die. This is what M. Robert Houdin, the greatest artist in what is called Conjuring, has lately done in the remarkable book Confidences d'un Pres tigiteur, a faithful translation of which is here presented to the American reading public. The work has had the greatest success in Europe, from its lively style as well as the various information it contains, historical and philo sophical, on the practice and principles of sleight-of-hand, and the other details, mental as well as mechanical, which unite to make perfect the exhibition of White Magic, the antipodes of what our forefathers knew, persecuted, and punished as the Black Art.

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