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LAST FEW DAYS.
--gry 0Y A L LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS
jl-11) 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, 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,
Tot 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 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 awl
fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum
Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he
s , liks been enabled to .annpunce Magic and Mystery for con-
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lepetitiba;"lll4llo,46Fei tbarridlifire'sisfrlif Isis 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
iv 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 travellecrthe 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 wher-
ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by
resorting to the conjurer's arts, in an illegitimate manner,
the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the
erodulous.
s, 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
ttsulted, Professor Anderson's exposé of spirit-rapping and
ibis illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro-
, sduced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex-
,pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible
..sfor Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the
communications which roach him on the subject. He regrets
sstithat many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
'who, from their position in society and their well-known in-
' wrellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have
leen converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so
',,ltasily 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
ss sand elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this
,: Sisublic exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
,:.. Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his
.'s 4fnultitudinous correspondents. Ho regrets that the
"'names of the great and kernel of the land should
--s.,
, s - s tave boon made to figure in the documents emanating
from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
" etracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septcm-
. ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spirt:-
Vial Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American
-Inspirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster
, frankly confesses that he is ' sorely puzzled' at what ho has
0 witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be
1 ,ethoroughly nonplussed: Both of these noted urea brought
the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the
, l'w solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial,
-.actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits
s''-ilt 'who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate-
- atrial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques-
--')i lion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the
Vtabove, has recently left England, and the following account of
s:
s .who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648:
--.—" This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now
4in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations
• : without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout
t=*''the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendidhumbug, offered him 2,000
11,94 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New
V. York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could
be bought. 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-
k. phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid
w." of losing his power as a medium, and ho would sooner lose
' his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
• • e inquired' into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the
s 1
greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
V.
.in
s one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer-
s,, tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the
, editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom
4 ,17 might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does beliew
,4 in spirit-rapping-- does spirit-rapping gain or lose bl
sz'ss,- this accession to its adherents 7 and, with Barnum's endorse
•-,a ment to it, is this bill, drawn on publio credulity, more likely
41, to be negotiated? Professor Anderson would believe not ;
' but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
Ss , England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
'.."i' a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
sse s
s, Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
':' ' writes a book on the subject, be considers it to be time for
s him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
4,1 it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
't
. 3forning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
'.l`e"+; s , David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel,
:,,sis/. in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that
'.
ss, which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that
st._ spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
.... ss purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day,
".ref' however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
!siftf,.., who was present when he and Lord Brougham had their
-s:Mr, séance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the
!'ssosts table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
a4,-, extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac-
-SXer cordion was convoyed by an invisible agency to my hand and
4 lr. then to
Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's
right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through-
...
. ~s, • out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of
''' the people of 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--that the
greatest novelist of the ago is now engaged in making it the
subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
has actually been advertised to be hold in 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-
v tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual
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s' jugglers.
5...71.-,_,. In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have
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st•iss,s7l6' visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed,
';.-!: ills' than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so
!";: short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even-
-s ts' ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand
• '", s fashionable Day Performance, on Saturday, December 22, at
, -Sys. 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; -
z • Part 1. —Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
a by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
:.*_ •-4 : isin, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
the air.
' Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
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complex forms of ornithological existence.
Act 3. Le Livre des Reeneils Choisies : or, Puck's Own
-*7 Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the
~ ' , evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu-
;": urinous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude
out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears
ss s .
~.' for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and
,s '• i in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
'-ss !''' ' place for to be found.
: s ' • Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou-
Ps-7- ble. In which will be 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 de Verne; or, the Casket of Crcesue. Into
which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent,
and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all ;resent,
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 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, ram, 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
tocsin of the invisibles.
Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor-
phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become
transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eig
land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia.
Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comm, in which be who
seats himself will be under the magic spell, and app ear to
the audience, under Bircumstances least expected, in 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 an 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 Shc.test
Route to the 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, ii. Ils. 6d. and It. le., to be obtained at the
Box-office, or at the principal libraries; stalls, 4s. ; dress
circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. The
Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, uncles the direction
of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
formance on Saturday, December 22, atl2 o'clock, Doors open
a t half-past 1,

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