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A Magician In Many Lands by Charles Bertram

A Magician In Many Lands by Charles Bertram
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This book was published posthumously. The final editing was done by Betram's wife Clara, his friend Bellingham, and Professor Hoffmann.

  • CHAPTER 1: I decided to tour the world - The Oceania - Port Said - A local conjuror - I change 'busses' - The Shannon - A Mahometan funeral
  • CHAPTER 2: Bombay - The Tivoli Theatre - I lunch at Government House - Secunderabad - Mr. Jacobs, known to the world as 'Mr. Isaacs' - Hyderabad
  • CHAPTER 3: Raipur - The Raj Kumai College - Travelling by 'bullock Tonga' - I ride on an elephant - Calcutta - I perform at Government House - Lord Curzon - The Nawab Dacca
  • CHAPTER 4: The Black Hole of Calcutta - The Burning Ghats - The Botanical Gardens, the Banyan Tree - Indian Railway Travelling
  • CHAPTER 5: Allahabad - Fakirs, their extraordinary tasks and penances - The nude procession - The Railway Theatre - I meet an unexpected acquaintance - Benares - I pay my respects to the Maharajah and visit the Holy Man - The Monkey and Golden Temples
  • CHAPTER 6: Lucknow - The Residency - I open at the Mohamed Bagh Theatre - A supplementary 'Show' at the Chatr Munzil Palace - Cawnpore - My illness - I struggle though helped by my boy Jairham Jugga - Cawnpore - I watch a performance of the Mango tree trick - Meerut - The Whela Club - Umballa - I meet General Penn Symons - An invitation from the Maharajah of Kapurthala - Am splendidly entertained - A Durbar
  • CHAPTER 7: Buona Vista - Amritzar: the Golden Temple - Lahore Patiala - His Highness The Maharajah
  • CHAPTER 8: The Holi Festival - I am initiated
  • CHAPTER 9: Delhi - The Kutb Minar, a monument of victory - The Iron Pillar - A native Baboon - I get a fright
  • CHAPTER 10: Johdpur - The value of a 'peg' - I visit the Maharajah - Amber - The palace - The fete in honor of the Goddess of Wealth - The sacred alligators - A tug of war between man and beast - Exit Bertram hurriedly!
  • CHAPTER 11: Agra - The Taj Mahal - I perform before the Maharajah of Khetri - Stampede of the natives - Bertram the 'devil-man' - Observation on the mosquito
  • CHAPTER 12: Dholpur - I visited the Maharana - Am honoured in being permitted to occupy the guest chambers used by his late Majesty King Edward as Prince of Wales in 1876 - I perform before the ladies of the Zenana - Have a narrow escape from a tiger - Give lessons in legerdemain to the Maharajah Patiala
  • CHAPTER 13: Gwalior - The vagaries of the 'punkah' - an elephant ride
  • CHAPTER 14: Baroda - The kindness of His Highness the Gaekwar - In the Durbar Hall I give a State performance - The horrors of the famine
  • CHAPTER 15: The Koiar Gold-field - Bangalore - An examination by the plague officials
  • CHAPTER 16: Madras - My 'boy' climbs for 'toddy' - I perform before Lord Havelock - 'The Catamaran'
  • CHAPTER 17: Trichinopoli - The terra-cotta horses - I accept a volunteer ticket-seller - and pay for it
  • CHAPTER 18: I visit the Rajah of Puddakkotai - and am greatly honoured - a State performance in the Library
  • CHAPTER 19: Indian Jugglers and Conjurers - The Mango tree-trick - a few comments on travellers' tales
  • CHAPTER 20: The Rope Trick - tall stories - and their absurdity - Basket Trick
  • CHAPTER 21: Indian Conjurers - Hussain Bux - some effective tricks - my opinions - The pearl fisheries at Tuticorin - Ceylon - I visit the Boer Camp
  • CHAPTER 22: Rangoon Central Prison - murderers and convicts - The proclamation of King Edward VII as Emperor of India - Mandalay - King Thebaw's Palace - A Burmese festival - Pponghyi Honey
  • CHAPTER 23: Penang - I find a Dutch wife - Singapore - I risk my life in a 'sampan' - The Chinese New Year - Hong-Kong - Pidgin English
  • CHAPTER 24: Canton - The execution ground: hacked to pieces - Slow strangulation - Sanghai - The English settlement - I meet my friend Mr. Percy Brough - We witness 'Justice while you wait'
  • CHAPTER 25: I take a Chinese Dinner - and afterwards dine at the Club - The Chinese Theatre - A long performance - I give a show - Received in silence but with great success - Governor Kwei receives me kindly at Soochow - A Chinese punishment
  • CHAPTER 26: Japan - Bertram the Buffoon - I take out a license - Kobe - Yokohama - I am commanded to appear before the Mikado
  • CHAPTER 27: Tokio - Sidelights on Japanese cleanliness - I perform before the Court - The Shrine of Nikko - Kioto - the Cherry Dances - The Geisha Girls
  • CHAPTER 28: Japanese Jugglers - A Japanese Play - blood-thirsty performance - A visit to a Geisha House
  • CHAPTER 29: Hong Kong - Robert and Percy Brough meet me - Percy and I play poker - We capture a small shark and sight the 'Ophir' with the present King and Queen on board - Sydney - Melbourne - I surprise the Chief of Police - Bendigo - Mary-borough, the Mayor receives me - Mudgee Forbes - Australian Hooligans - Jerilderie, the notorious Ned Kelly gang - A fit up show 'When London Sleeps' - Yarrowonga - I ride in a coach - 'Ici on parle Francais' - Sydney loafers and thieves
  • CHAPTER 30: New Zealand - Auckland - Sir Hector Macdonald reviews the troops - Crossing the Line - Honolulu
  • CHAPTER 31: San Francisco - The Chinese quarter - Opium dens and Theatres - New York - The visit of Li Hung Chang - Coney Island - 'A clam bake'
  • CHAPTER 32: Philadelphia - I visit the Mint - cycling at Atlantic City - Boston - Charlestown
  • CHAPTER 33: Montreal - The students attend my performance - Niagara - Quebec - Ottawa - A fire at the Government Buildings
  • CHAPTER 34: Chicago - 'Hold ups' - Sandbagging - Messrs Armours Establishment - I witness the process - St. Louis I perform before the famous Joseph Jefferson - Cincinnati - An American 'Train Boy'
  • CHAPTER 35: I meet my famous confrere Kellar - An advertising dodge - Cleveland - Mark Hanna the American statesman assists me on the Stage - St. Paul - Sleighing - Nashville - A Negro Court - 'I'll cut you deep' - New Orleans
  • CHAPTER 36: Washington - I am a millionaire - for a second or two - Baltimore - Richmond - the Ice harvest - Brett and I and the bears
  • CHAPTER 37: Saratoga chips - Trunk smashers at work - Down the Hudson - Election day in New York - The American Woman
  • CHAPTER 38: Homewards bound on the Lucania - A Little Game at Poker - I deal, and retire - The reward of Innocence - Euston

 
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