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ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE: THIS
EVENING, and every evening during the
week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
• and MYSTERY, by Professor • •AILTDERSON, the Great
Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety
of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary
effects.
Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of
amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them-
selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of
them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition,
for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the
eyes of the• visitors no one can be positive that he sees any
one thing ; but it is a comedy really performed by the com-
pany; a melodrama replete with startly positions and unex-
pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of
the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex-
travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond
the bounds of probability.
f Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and
fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum:
Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he
has been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con-
tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art
has at any time or in any place been honoured with an
amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual.
He would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that
in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors
the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of
perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he
has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has
spared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on
the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment
of the first mechanicians and 'artists of the day ; and thirdly,
that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those
who honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that
it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor-
tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where-
ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by
resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner,
the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the
credulous.

The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro-
fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the
theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in-
terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst
many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which
attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri-
tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has
resulted, Professor Anderson's exposé of spirit-rapping and
his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro-
duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex-
pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible
for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the
communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets
that many .of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
who, from their position in society and their well-known in-
tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have
been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so
easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every
evening, from. the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on
spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the
Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited
and elucidated- It is respectfully requested that this
public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his
multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the
names of the. great and learned of the land should
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have been made to figure in the documents emanating
from the spirit -rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem-
ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri-
tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American
spirit-rapper, Mr.. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster
frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has
witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be
thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought
the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the

solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial,
actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits
who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate-
rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques-
tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Flume, the author of the
above, has recently left England, and the following account of
who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 645:
This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now
in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations
without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout
the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2,000
dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New
York. 'Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could
be brought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was
refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply
and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very
acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or-
phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid
of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
He inqu,ired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the
greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer-
tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the
editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom
Might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
in spirit-rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse-
ment to' it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ;
but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
Rev, N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
writes a book on the subject, be considers it t i be time for
him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
Morning A dvertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel,
in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that
Which the. Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that
spirit-rapt )ing is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
Purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day
howeier, t here is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
Who was p. resent when he and Lord Brougham had their
fiance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the
table (a larg e dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
extraordinai y manner, and, among other things, a large ac-
cordion was conveyed by an invisible agepcy to my hand and
then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's
right hand, a part from any person, it played an air through-
out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of
the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that
the most tab aited men of the day are permitting themselves
to be delud .cd by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the
greatest novc ;list of the age is now engaged in making it the
subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
has actually I been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall,
Professor Any ierson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
ists of Ameri, ea, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
be received b y the people of England as genuine honest at-
tempts to pia rvide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual
Jugglers.
In the cour as of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have
visited the Ly) ;elm Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed,

than has ever I )efore been assembled within its walls in so
t short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even.
ng, the programme being continually changed. Graud
fa ‘shionable Day Performance, or Saturday, October 13, at 2
o' clock ; the programme being thus arranged ;
Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
C. ipabilities ofhe Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
r magic that Which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
ic: re, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
th e air.
Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and
th ie possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most
ao rnplox forms of ornithological existence.
Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own
Pe ket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the
ev ea ing's entertainment in the production of the very voln-
mi Luo us from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude
oat o. f minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears
for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and
in brie lging forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
;for to be found.
Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou.
ble. In: which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed-
ding ,Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor-
matio n—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article
in the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
Act LI. L'Ecrin de Verre ; or, the Casket of Croesus. Into
which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent,
and susp ended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present,
the Wizal•d will cause the money of his visitors to transport
itself, and • rain into the casket, though its lid be closed,
locked, an d the key in the possession of the audience.
' Act 6. C,Wrvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency
of Opacity.
Act. 7. A. New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine
and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible
bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in-
exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the
word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk,
Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky,
noyeau, or any other wine or spirit required; and finally
proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry,
and occupying the whole space when tightly packed.
Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Exposé of
Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and
t ocsin of the invisibles.
Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
tht Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamer-
pin )sex, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become
era:, nsformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng-
la France, Turkey, and Sardinia.
act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who
see is himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to
the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi-
tion as peculiar as perplexing.
Ac t. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the
Nuclei Is of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the
andienc e will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part
of the eN .suing, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin)
iV vvniitapiri into which all things will travel, and out of which
a
Act. 12. 4Thucede .Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest
Route to th, Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
ridding ourt el 7e,s of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
of the newly-lh vered dia-terrestrial passage from the west.
01. n to the eastei hemisphere.
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