Part 1: Detective stories from real life Part 2: True stories of modern magic

P. H. Woodward -- Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department -- An Erring Shepherd -- An Aspirant for Congress -- The Fortune of Seth Savage -- A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified -- An Old Game Revived -- A Formidable Weapon -- Andrew Lang -- Saint-Germain the Deathless -- The Man in the Iron Mask -- The Legend -- The Valet's History -- The Valet's Master -- Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly -- M. Robert-Houdin [After whom Harry Houdini named himself] -- A Conjurer's Confessions -- Self-Training -- "Second Sight" -- The Magician Who Became an Ambassador -- Facing the Arab's Pistol -- David P. Abbott -- Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled -- A Doctor of the Occult -- How the Tricks Succeeded -- The Name of the Dead -- Mind Reading in Public -- Some Famous Exposures -- Hereward Carrington -- More Tricks of "Spiritualism" -- "Matter through Matter" -- Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology -- Anonymous -- How Spirits Materialize

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