Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories: ORIENTAL: MODERN MAGIC

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES JOHNSTON
A World-Old Web of Oriental Tales
The Power of Eloquence (Japanese)
The Dishonest Goldsmith and the Ingenious Painter
(Turkish)
The Craft of the Three Sharpers (Arabic)
The Cheerful \Vorkman (Arabic) •
The Robber and the Woman (Arabic) .
The Wonderful Stone (Chinese)
The Weaver \Vho Became a Leach (Arabic)
ViSik.ha (Tibetan)
Told by the Constable (Arabic)
The Unjust Sentence (Chinese)
The Scar on the Throat (Arabic) •
Devasmita (Sanskrit) •
The Sharpers and the Money-lender (Arabic)
The Withered Hand (Turkish)
The Melancholist and the Sharper (Arabic) .
Lakshadatta and Labdhadatta (Sanskrit)
The Cunning Crone (Arabic) •
Judgment of a Solomon (Chinese) .
The Sultan and His Three Sons (Arabic)
Tale of a Demon (Sanskrit)
The Jar of Olives and the Boy Kazi (Arabic)
Another Solomon (Chinese)
Calamity Ahmad and Habzalom Bazazah (Arabic)
A Man-Hating Maiden (Sanskrit)
Told by the Constable (Arabic)
The Clever Thief (Tibetan)
The King Who Made Mats (Persian) •
The Brahman Who Lost H..s Treasure (Sanskrit)
The Duel of the Two Sharpers (Arabic)
The Lady and the Kazi (Persian) •
Mahaushadha (Tibetan)
Avicenna and the Observant Young Man (Turkish) .
M. ROBERT-HOUDIN
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 "Spiritualists"
Matter Through Matter
Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology 28o
ANONYMOUS
How Spirits Materialize