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LAST FEW DAYS.
ROYAL LYCEUNI THE A_TRE. THIS
EVENING, and every evening during the
week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, 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, pee-
ceasing 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
- ono thing ; but it is a comedy really performed by the cora.
pany ; a melodrama replete with startling 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.
Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged anl
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 my 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 preeent entertainment he has placed before his visitors
the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of
perfected skill in ono peculiar art, and to perfect which he
has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that ho has
spored 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 wher-
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 Auderion 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 expose 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 roach him on the subject. He regrets
that many of these should come from ladies acid 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 os
spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within th-
Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited
and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that tha,
public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his-
multitudinous correspondents. lie regrets that th
names of the great and learned of the land should
have been made to figure in the documents emanaths:
from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septet]]
ter 20, and taken by that journal from the Ncit) 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 lie 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
volution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial,
actpal 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. Hume, the author of the
*beim, has recently left England, and the following account o'
Who; and what ho is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 645:
—"This young man, who is a Scotchmau 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 medium. could
aisengkit. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was
Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply
andSonostly remarked, that the money would have been very
acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or•
pilaus and in very bad health : but he would leave been afraid
.of losing' his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
his life. Tho refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
He inquired 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 bs
this'uccessiou to its adherents? and, with Barnum's endorse
went to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
to bo 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, he considers it to 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 Advertiser 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-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day.
however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from ono
who was present when he acid Lord Brougham had their
fiance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the
table -(a Large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac-
cordion was convoyed by an invisible agency to my hand and
then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's
right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through-
out."' With such a statement, printed for the edification of
the people pf the 19th century, with the facts before us that
the Most talented men of the day are permitting themselves
to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers--thae thee
greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the
subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
has actually been advertised to be held iu St. Martin's-hall,
Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
be received by the people of England as genuine honest _At-
tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual
jugglers.
In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have
visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed,
than has over before been assembled within its walls in so
short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even-
ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand
fashionable Day Performance, on Saturday, December 15, at
2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; '-
Part 1. —Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
the air.
Act 2. The Aqua.Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and
the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most
complex forms of ornithological existence.
Act 3. Lo Livre des Reeusils Choisies : or, Puck's Own
Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the
evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu-
minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude
out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears
for its existence, iu discovering odd things in odd places, and
in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
place for to be found.
Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Trausitiou without Trou.
ble. In which will bo comprised—the Adventures of a Wed-
ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor-
mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article
in the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
Act 5. L'Ecrin do Verve; or, the Casket of Crcesue. Into
which, t'aough made entirely of glass perfectly transparent,
and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present,
the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport
itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed,
locked, and the key in the possession of the audience.
Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency
of Opacity.
Act. 7. A Now 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,
rioyeau,, or any other wine or spirit required ; mid finally
anovins,
• •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 ExposCs
and
of
Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table
tocsin of the invisibles.
Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property ofmor-
tlie Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange meta
Phosas, and, amongst others, their bandkorcldefs become
transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Es g •
land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia.
Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which be who
seats himself will be under the magic spell, and aPP ear to
the audience, under circumstances least expected, iu a posi-
tion as peculiar as perplexing.
Act; 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the
Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the
audience Will have the goodness to observe, in au earlier part
of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin)
in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which
all will be produced.
Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the She stest
Route to tho Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west-
ern to the eastern hemisphere.
Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8.
Private boxes, 1/. lls. 6d. and 1/. ls., to bet obtained at the
Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; salls, 4s. ; the
circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, Is. ; galleesa 6(1. The
Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, uudei the direction
of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
formance on Saturday, December 15, at 2 o'clock, Doors open
at half-past 1.

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