This is a book aimed at the true beginner. Compiled from the author’s columns in Young America: The National News Weekly For Youth, it presents tricks that can be performed easily and ‘there is no exceptional skill required, and all the apparatus needed can be built easily.’ The tricks get increasingly difficult through the book and it starts with the key warning to never reveal the method of a trick to the audience or risk ruining the mystery. Written for children, aged 10-14, the blurb promotes the book to boys and girls alike!