A collection of fascinating tricks in which water is the chief agent including full descriptions of the ingenius Rice Bowls illusion, the famous Passe-Passe trick and David Devant's classic routine, The Hydrostatic Tube.This remastered and expanded edition includes the original 1922 publication, unabridged, plus an author biography, additional woodcut illustrations in keeping with the period, carefully remastered diagrams and amends to text for clarity.