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Written by Tim Pendergast

There is no one in any magic club who has not at some time or another learned from Dr. Tarbell. There are many who lay the credit for their entire professions to the Tarbell Course, that vast storehouse of magical knowledge, painstakingly illustrated in great detail, with a text so crystal clear in simple English that students were doing the tricks almost as they read about them. Dr. Tarbell had two great God-given talents that fitted in perfectly with his acquired talent of magic-he drew like an angel and he wrote with amazing clarity.
Dr. Tarbell was a genius in creating, solving and demonstrating mysteries. The things you know cannot be done-Dr. Tarbell did. He made mystery not only an art but a science. He puzzled the magician as well as the layman. At an early age, Dr. Tarbell realized the strange power that mystery held over man and how it shaped his destiny. He saw how legends lived when facts died and how illusion too often looked more like truth than truth itself.

CONTENTS
Frontispiece
Dedication
Contents
Foreword (David Copperfield)
Introductions:
Steve Burton
Richard Kaufman
Preface (Harlan Tarbell)

Lesson 92-Thoughts and Advice

Lesson 93-Mysteries of the Seance
Spiritualism and Magic
The Dark Seance at the Table
The Dark Circle
The Touch of Mysterious Fingers
Gysel's Method
The Cabinet Seance
The Throw- Away Coat Tie
Anna Eva Fay's Spirit Tie
Tarbell's Spirit Collar

Lesson 94-Further Unique Mysteries
Wine and Water
Tarbell's Anytime Cake in the Hat
The Enchanted Cane
The L. W. Bewitched Handkerchief and Glass
A Topsy-Turvy Word
The Mysterious Cross
Solid Through Solid String
Come-Back Bread Crumbs
The Cloudburst Coin
Tarbell's Production Hat
Derby and Silk Routine
Tarbell's Potato and Die
Tarbell's First Torn Paper Routine
Tarbell's Oranges
The Classic Water Bowl Production

Lesson 95-Magic with Cards
Collin's Slippery Aces
The Mystic Aces
Kick-Back Card Discovery
A Good Card Trick
Rising Cards From Envelope (Two Methods)
Rising Cards From Book
Switching Decks
The Phantom Cut-Out Card
F. E. Cole's Any Card Called For Rising Card
Tarbell's Any Card Rising Card

Lesson 96-Oriental Magic
The Tarbell Cannon Cracker (Six Effects)
The Hindu Climbing Balls
The Hindu Jar of Grain
The Hindu Disappearing Grain
Chinese Color-Changing Coins
The Chinese Sticks
The Chinese Production Box
Mystery of the Paper Ball, Egg, Frog, and Baby Chicken

Lesson 97-Magic of the Mind
Blindfold Card Reading
The Devil's Deck
Bank Night Revisited
Dr. Bridges Thought Projection
The Chess Knight's Tour
The Tarbell Rapid Memory Act

Lesson 98-Rope Magic
A Word About Magic With Ropes
How to Tie a Square Knot
Tarbell's "Basik" Rope Mystery
The Lazy Man Reformed
Henry Holava's Rope from Hand Release
Block of Wood Release
The Priest's Pearls
Tarbell's Rope Mystery (Five Effects)

Lesson 99-Chalk Talk Magic
The Basics of Quick Sketching
The Rabbit and the Magician
The Monkey and the Cat
The Duck and the Farmer
Grandpa's Experience
A Lady and Her Husband
The Mouse and the Lady
The Pig and the Wolf
The Elephant and the Ostrich
Cupid and the Stork
The Vanishing Line
A Stylish Gentleman
Have a Banana
A Lemon While You Wait
The Rising Card
The Honorable Mr. Donkey
The Pirate's Chest
A Drink to Order
The Rabbit in the Hat
An Easy Way to Make Money

Lesson 100-Magic with Apparatus
The Siberian Chain Escape
The Mysterious Self- Filling Lota
Ching Ling Foo's Magic Water Can
Tarbell's Ball and Vase Routine
The Tarbell Orange Vase
The Bran Vase
The Dove Pan
The Welsh Rarebit
The Magic Chocolates
The Wandering Glass and Bottle
Comedy Version
Bottle, Bottle, Where's the Bottle
Tarbell's "Society Special" Black Art Table
Super Vanish of Doves

Lesson 101- Comedy Magic
The Vice Versa Rabbit Mystery
The Lie Detector
The Traveling Coins
The Chameleon Stocks
Mind-Reading Deluxe
A Hypnotic Vanishing
An Unexpected Vanishing
A Comedy Levitation

Lesson 102-Pantomime Illusions
The Phantom of the Circus
The Chinaman, the Ghost, and the Cat
The Mystery of the Three Ghosts
The Mystery of the Dancing Girls

Lesson 103-Making Magic Pay

THE SELLING OF THE TARBELL MAGIC SYSTEM
Tarbell Introduced by Dr. A. M. Wilson
Ads for the Tarbell System
Pitch Letters Sent by the System to Prospective Students
The Strong Box and Apparatus Included with Lesson 1
Pitch Letter After Lesson 1 was Received
Price List of Supplies
Apparatus Sent After Lesson 20
Tarbell System Diploma
Tarbell Course of Magic Poster
Pitch Letter for Tarbell Post Graduate Course

THE TARBELL LECTURES
Tarbell Personal Course in Magic No. 1 (1942)
Tarbell Personal Course in Magic No. 2 (1942)
1947 S. A. M. Lecture Notes and List of Tricks Performed
Personal Course in Magic (1955)
Tarbell's "Princess Card Trick"

SOURCES OF MATERIAL USED IN TARBELL 8

Donated by Cody Landstrom

Date insert: Friday, 02 June 2023

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