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Comments: Howard Thurston had published 100 Tricks You Can Do in 1912, 100 More Tricks You Can Do (1932), 200 Tricks You Can Do (1926), 200 More Tricks You Can Do, (1927), and 300 Tricks You Can Do (1948). I'm not sure of the exact overlap of all of these, but 400 Tricks You Can Do is a combination of the 200 Tricks and 200 More Tricks books. I believe the New Revised Edition has the same content, but has arranged all the chapters in alphabetical order, while the original edition printed the book in two parts, 200 Tricks You Can Do and 200 More Tricks You Can Do. Contents (New Revised Edition): v Introduction 1 Ball Tricks 1 The Appearing Ball 2 The Vanishing Ball 2 The Diminishing Ball 3 The Self Rolling Ball 3 The Aerial Ball 3 Balanced Golf Balls 4 The Mysterious Ball 4 The Ball Tube 5 The Three Paper Balls 6 The Balls and the Hats 8 The Floating Paper Ball 8 Red, White and Blue 9 Multiplying Paper Balls 10 The Three Marble Trick 11 Card Tricks 11 The "One Way" Pack 12 The Pencil Mark Pack 12 Pointed Cards 13 The Double Card 13 The Short Card 14 The Bent Corner 14 False Shuffling (Three Methods) 15 Cut to the Card 16 The Spelling Trick 17 The Wise Queen 18 Finding a Chosen Card 19 The X Ray Card Case 19 The Color Changing Pack 20 The Color Changing Card 21 The Three Jacks 21 Card at Any Number 22 The Card in the Pocket 23 The Turn Up Card 23 The Burglars 24 Kings and Queens 25 Mental Telepathy 26 Long Distance Telepathy 27 Magnetic Cards (Five Methods) 29 The Vanishing Card 29 The Automatic Rising Card 30 The Card on the Hand 30 The Spirit Card 31 The Aces from the Pocket 32 The Reversing Card 33 The Traveling Ace 33 Maltese Crosses 34 A Mysterious Coincidence 35 A Card Thrugh the Plate 35 An Easy Four Ace Trick 37 The Paddle Trick 38 A Mysterious Card Trick 39 Card and Coin Trick 39 The Mysterious Joker 40 Card Chnging Under Foot 40 United Kings and Queens 41 The Circle of Cards 42 The Rosette 42 The Card Finder 42 Rising Card from Case 43 Revealing the Card 44 Two Packets 44 Red and Black 44 The Elusive Card 46 Cards to Cigarettes 46 Forcing a Card 47 The Card in the Watch 47 A Surprise 49 Checker Tricks 49 The Magic Knock out 50 Three in a Row 50 Making Kings 51 The Mystic Nine 52 The Magnetic Checker 52 The Color Changing Checker 52 Moving the Checkers 53 Eleven or Twelve? 53 Nine or Ten? 54 Right and Left 55 The Vanishing Checker 55 A Trick with a Checkerboard 56 Picking Out The Black 56 Changing Checkers 58 Cigar and Cigarette Tricks 58 Disappearing Cigar Band 58 Cigar Balanced on Hat 58 The Revolving Cigar 59 The Reversing Cigarette 59 The Magnetic Cigar 59 The Invsible Cigarette 60 The Automatic Cigarette 61 Stretching a Cigarette 62 The Tippy Cigarette 62 The Cigarett in the Hand 62 Cigarettes in the Case 63 The Rising Cigarette 64 The Nameless Cigarette 64 The Anti Gravity Cigarette 65 The Smoke Trick 65 Self Smoking Cigarette 67 Coin Tricks 67 Match Box Coin Vanish 67 Coin in Ball of Wool 68 Ring and Vanishing Coin 68 The "Wisenheimer" Coin Trick 69 Three Appearing Coins 69 The Fade Away Coin 70 The Whirl Away Coin 70 The Changing Coin 71 The Multiplying Coins 71 Odd and Even 71 The Coin on the Door 72 A Coin Box 73 Where Is the Coin? 73 Catching Three Coins 74 Coin Vanishes From Hands 74 Heads and Tails 74 The Marked Coin 75 Coin, Cards and Rings 75 Coin Through the Table 76 Heads or Tails 76 The Coin in the Knot 77 Vanishing Coin from Handkerchief 77 The Missing Coin 78 Coin, Glass and Plate 78 A Coin Joke 79 A Quick Coin Vanish 79 The Talking Coin 79 Box and Coin Trick 80 The Coin Through the Sleeve 80 The Coin at the Elbow 81 An Appearing Coin 81 A Balanced Coin 81 The Coin on the Forehead 81 The Bouncing Coin 82 An Obedient Coin 82 Traveling Coin 82 Coin and Pins 83 Coins from Elbow 83 A Coin Disappearance 84 Five Coin Problem 84 Coin from Glass 85 A Coin Catch 85 Vanishing Money 86 Coin from Tumbler 86 Coin Through Table 86 Coin from Candle 87 Snatching the Coin 87 A Quick Coin Vanish 88 Coin, Tube and Paper 89 The Paper and the Coin 89 Guessing the Date 89 Heads Up! 90 Coin Through Handkerchief 90 Tack in the Ceiling 91 Coins, Plate and Glass 92 The Hidden Coin 92 Coin on the Wrist 93 Odd or Even? 93 The Four Coin Trick 95 Cork Tricks 95 The Bouncing Cork 95 Upright Corks 95 Two Corks 95 Cork and Bottle 96 Adhesive Corks 96 Removing the Cork 97 The Improved Multiplying Corks 99 Dice and Domino Tricks 99 The Magnetic Dice 99 Naming the Total 100 The End Numbers 100 The Incomplete Game 100 Sixteen Dominoes 101 Totalling Three Dice 101 Dice in Cup 103 Egg Tricks 103 The Balanced Egg (Three Methods) 103 Spinning an Egg 104 The Floating Egg 104 Eggs, Spools and Glasses 105 Egg to Confetti 106 Hand Tricks 106 The Mummified Finger 107 The Extended Finger 108 The Removable Thumb 109 The Detachable Finger 109 Stretching the Thumb 110 Eleven Fingers 111 Flexible Hands 111 Clapping the Hands 112 Tough Knuckles 112 An Illusion of Touch 113 Handkerchief Tricks 113 The Balanced Handkerchief 114 The Doubling Knot 114 The Appearing Knot 115 Nonburning Handkerchief 115 The Flyaway Knot 116 The Draw-away Knot 117 United and Untied 117 Match in Handkerchief 117 The Disappearing Handkerchief 118 The Fadeaway Knot Trick 119 The Hypnotized Handkerchief 120 The Flying Handkerchief 120 The Perfect Dissolving Knot 121 A Sudden Knot 122 An Escape 123 Handkerchief on the String 124 Liquid Tricks 124 Ink to Water 125 Water to Ink 125 Water to Wine 125 Wine to Water 125 Two Goblets 126 Wine and Water (Without Chemicals) 127 The Dry Bowl 127 Gravity Defied 128 The Dry Hand 128 Disappearing Water 129 Glass of Water from Pocket 129 The Whirling Glass 131 Match Box Tricks 131 The Vanishing Matches 131 Monte with Match Boxes 132 Cutting Through a Match Box 132 Appearing Matches 133 Matches Through the Table 134 The Adhesive Match Box 134 The Diminishing Match Box 135 Ribbon from the Match 136 Match Tricks 136 Four Triangles 136 Penetrating Matches 137 The Missing Light 137 Mystic Safety Matches 137 One at a Time 138 Balancing a Match 138 Burnout Matches 138 The Match Square 139 Lighted Match from Pocket 140 Selflighting Match 140 The Multiplying Match 141 The Standing Match 141 Shooting the Match 142 Six and Eleven 142 Red and Blue 142 Appearing Paper Matches 143 Cross to Square 144 Match to Cigarette 145 Miscellaneous Tricks 145 The Jumping Ruler 145 The Changing Spools 146 The Flower in Buttonhole 146 The Three Beads 147 A Difficult Job 147 The Mystic Propellor 147 Pin Through the Head 148 Pin Through Finger 148 The Turnover Key 148 The Vanishing Candle 149 The Rubber Cube 150 Number Tricks 150 Totalling Twenty 150 Telling the Total 151 Nine Fingers 152 The Grand Total 152 Cross Them Out 153 The Magic Number 153 The Favorite Number 154 The Thirty One Trick 156 Optical Tricks 156 Which Is Larger? 156 The Coin in the Glass 157 Mystic Circles 158 A Missing Coin 158 Drawing with a Mirror 158 Seeing Through Solid 159 A Ghost 159 Strange Lines 160 The Snake and the Bird 161 Both Sides 162 Paper Tricks 162 The Torn and Restored Cigarette Paper 163 The Restored Paper Napkin 164 The Celebrity Trick 164 The Tough Napkin 165 The Paper Bridge 165 The Marked Paper 166 Three Paper Slips 166 Traveling Tissue Paper 167 The Shower of Paper 168 Production of Paper Money 168 A Generous Offer 168 Blow Them Away 169 A Paper Tearing Trick 170 It Looks Easy 170 From the Ashes 170 Penny Through Paper 171 Out of Sight 172 The Magic Blow 172 A Paper Snake 172 Transposed Paper Slips 173 The Paper Ribbon Trick 173 The Message on the Card 174 What's on the Paper? 174 Three Cards 175 Penetrating Paper 176 The Paper Bag 176 The Paper Ladder 178 Pencil Tricks 178 The Magnetic Pencil 178 The Vanishing Pencil 179 Turnabout Pencil 179 Naming the Suit 180 Pencil from Pocketbook 180 Breaking the Pencil 180 Pencil Under Handkerchief 181 Rising Ring on Pencil 181 The Rising Pencil 182 The Fountain Pencil 183 Ring Tricks 183 The Phantom Ring 184 The Improved Phantom Ring 184 Ring Tied on String 184 The Ring on the Finger 185 The Ring and String 185 The Released Rings 186 The Vanishing Ring 186 The Ring in the Egg 187 The Ring from the String 188 The Cardboard Ring Trick 188 Instantaneous Appearance of Six Rings 189 The Dropping Ring 190 Spirit Tricks 190 Two Messages 191 Pocket Spirit Slates 192 Single Spirit Slate 192 The Spirit Bell 193 The Spirit Cloth 193 Choosing a Question 194 The Spirit Answer 195 Spirit Table Lifting 195 One Hand Table Lifting 196 An Easy Slate Message 196 A Spirit Question 196 Strange Manifestations 197 A Spirit Gong 197 Strange Telepathy 198 Mysterious Answers 198 Mind Reading 199 The Mystic Ring 200 A Clever Slate Writing Trick 200 The Taped Slates 201 The Three Spirit Slates 202 The Spirit Name 203 The Spirit Hand 203 Contact Telepathy 204 Reading Sealed Messages 204 Improved Envelope Test 205 The Great Rope Tie 206 String Tricks 206 The Removable String 206 A Restored String 207 Scissors and String 207 String and Ice Cube 207 Cut the Center 208 On and Off Loop 209 Sugar Tricks 209 Floating Sugar 209 Burning Sugar 209 The Cloud of Sugar 210 The Mystic Letter 211 Traveling Lumps of Sugar 212 Sugar Through Table 214 Table Tricks 214 The Magnetic Knife 214 The Obedient Spoon 215 The Jumping Candle Flame 215 Vanishing Salt 215 The Enchanted Seed 216 The Orange to the Apple 216 The Vanishing Knife 217 Swallowing a Knife 217 Five Knife Trick 218 The Bridge of Knives 218 Blowing Through a Bottle 218 The Ribbon from the Orange 219 Bottle and Straw 219 Knife from the Glass 220 Thimble Tricks 220 A Vanishing Thimble 220 Colorchanging Thimble 221 The Jumping Thimble 221 Thimble from Paper 222 Thimble Through Handkerchief 223 Complete Penetration 224 The Floating Thimble 224 Handkerchief Through Thimble 225 Magnetic Thimbles 225 The Telltale Thimbles 226 Red, White and Blue 227 Tumbler Tricks 227 The Overfull Tumbler 227 A Two Tumbler Trick 228 Pouring Smoke 228 Non-breakable Glass 229 A Surprising Detection 229 Lifting Six Glasses 229 The Non-falling Glass 230 The Magnetic Tumbler 230 The Mystic Pointer 230 The Top of the Tumbler 231 Glass Balanced on Plate 231 The Balanced Tumbler 232 The Traveling Glass 233 The Glass and the Hat 234 Watch Tricks 234 The Stop Watch 234 Number Six 235 Telling the Time 235 The Mystic Alarm Clock 236 The Watch from the Handkerchief 236 Down the Sleeve 236 Tap the Dial Make sure you click on our store icon. 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