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London, England, 1855-10-11 00:00:00

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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 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,
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.
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 ho 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
snared 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-
tanity 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
redulous.
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 nldschievous 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 bo accepted generally as Professor
Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his
Multitudinous correspondents. Be regrets that the
names of the great and learned of the land should
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 :—"fSir • 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
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. Hume, 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. 648:
—" This young man, who is a Seetchman by birth, and now
in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations
Without apparatus. Barnum, who is weal-known throughout
the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offeredhim 2.600
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
refrised. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply
and honestly remarked, that the reoneyeVould have been very
a;caePtable to him, for lie was poor, young (under 219, an or-
o;l:iand red
veryrY
bad health : but he would have been afraid
hie, g hie power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
Ite The( refusal; howeer,
arnum thoughtful.
gonrealt
pared into the subject; and snowßarnum, one of the
humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
a°,°l the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer-
e ..n'Y Surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the
fight be
of an established journM, the editor of whom
inight be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
thi 'Piz-it-rapping—does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
8 accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse-
t'neut eo it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
elbe Aggotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ;
.ent, When he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
r'ngld have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
Itswindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
"...N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
,writes a book on the subject, he considers it t , be theme for
'lrm to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
ris effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
le °Ming Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
it aVd Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel.
coMpany with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that
'woich the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that
81_,)b4erapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
Poses. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day,
however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
Who, was present when he and Lord Brougham had their
fiance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the
(a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
extraordinary manner, aud, among other things, a large ac-
cordion was conveyed 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-
old." With such a statement, printed for the edification of
the people of the I9th century, with the facts before us that
the., most talented men of the day ate permitting themselves
to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the
greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the
asubject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
hassts actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall,
rrornseor
Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
of.i,s Ammica, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
fle 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
listed the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed,
has ever 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, or Saturday, October 13, at 2
O'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ;
Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
by of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
Y magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
Jain, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
ealr.
_Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
4°; 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. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own
Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the
e_ev.ening's entertainment in the production of the very volu-
us from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude
Out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears
for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and
24 bAnging forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
Place for to he 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-
mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article
in the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
Act 5. L'Eerin de Verre; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into
which, though made entirely of' glass perfectly transparent,
and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present,
the Wizard will caintouse the money of his visitors to transport
itself, and rai 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 Wino
at e
and Spirit Store. An Improvement upon the " inexhaustible
bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle willinnfiontitounmly,
be
in-
exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad
Ward of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk,
Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky,
4°Yeau, 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 Eng-
land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia.
Act, 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus in which he who
seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to
the audience, under circumstances 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 hare the goodness to observe, in au earlier part
of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin)
in raid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which
411 will produced.
Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest
4cnte 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.
Nrllvate boxes, 1/. 1 ls. Gil. and 1/. ls., to be obtained at the
Tx-ofliee, or at the principal libraries; stalls, 4s. ; dress
rale, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. The
ideX-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction
fo,Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
at P,eoll Pa 1: Saturday, October 13, at 2 o'clock, Doors open
ha