Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Magic, Skill, Spiritualism

    Discusses some feats of conjuring that Punch believes are so silly as hardly to deserve the name. Laments those who paid 'a guinea' to see William H H Davenport and Ira E Davenport, performers of 'asinine' tricks, but urges those in quest of a good conjuror to visit 'Colonel' Alfred Stodare at the Egyptian Hall, whose performance Punch praises.