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London, England, 1855-11-12 00:00:00

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ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. - THIS
EVENING, and every evening during the
"eek, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
;T.l MYSTERY, by PrOfessor ANDERSON, the Great
ward of the North, in 12 acts, with over-changing variety
of incidents, 'continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary
effects
•

..""aglc and 'Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
''"ing 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
elle thing ; but it is a comedy really performed by the com-
pany ; a melodrania replete with startling positions and unex-
Peeted 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.
lie 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
,Pared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on
the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment
0f the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly,
that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those
who honour him with their presence, ho has not forgotten that
't is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor-
tnnity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where-
ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by
the
to the couror's arts, in an illegitimate manner,
"'" designing have succeeded in making dupes of the
credulous.
The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro-
ftteztrre up to
has received, from the time of opening the
to the present date, bear witness to the great in-
crest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst
many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which
ratend 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 in* al' Ise ievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible
for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the
tcommunications which reach him on the subject. He regrets
many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
._„u, from their position in society and their well-known in-
,,_eleteetual attainments, he would least have expected to have
n converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so
•even convents
susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every
Pri7i ti
pfproinmg the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on
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
Irohlic exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
alit
only mode of replying at full length to his
mltitudinons correspondents. He regrets that the
;1/441e8 of the great and learned of the land should
.ave been made to figure in the documents emanating
;rem the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
acted front from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem-
!iet2o, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri-
gal Telegraih. It purports to emanate from an American
BPirit-raPPCT Mr. D. D. Hums :—" Sir David Brewster
frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has
witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be
gthorougly nonPlusse. Boof these noted men brought
'he whole force of thedir keen discernment to bear upon the
Solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial,
actaal 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
4°ove, 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 Scotchman by birth, and now
'1:1 Italy, is *a remarkable medium for all the manifestations
Without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout
t../16 Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2,000
dollars per annum sine would perform at,his museum in New
,°llc. Barnum then took it for granted that_mediums could
ue bought. He was somewhat astonished Nihen 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 had health : but he would have been afraid
of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
hAe is life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the
greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
°ne of the, firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer-
'll4 surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the
editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom
,bight be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
spirit-rapping—does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
tgis accession to its adherents ? and. with Barnum's endorse-
Ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
t° he negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not :
when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
Mend have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
tsvrindle
J when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
"rites a book on the subject, be considers it t, be time for
h..111'. to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
lkis effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
b"ing Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
...I;avid Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel,
11,iiiiliotoal:lpl:nwgith Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that •
"iedh the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that
is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
hoW Se,. In the Morning Adverti3er of the following day,
Not aver, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
t4,.° was present when he and Lord Brougham had their
table ce
(Wargohe spirits, in which the writer says, that " the
tt,euion
extra dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
eo,„.ordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac-
was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and
s? to LOrd Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's
"05!
,t,hand, apart from any person, it played an air through-
With such a statement, printed for the edification of
thea People of the 19th century, with the facts before us that
ut
to , ost talented men of' the day are permitting themselves
O b 0 deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the
greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the
tiect of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
,8 actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall,
is,..rofessor.Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
i'ee_ree.eived by the people of England as genuine honest at-
; "'lns to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual
'ageleas •
T. 4 the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have
'.isited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed,
than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so
a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even.
Ig, the programme being continually changed. Grand
ashionable Day Performance. or Saturday, November 17, at
2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ;
Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
!,,Y* 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, Le Livro des Recueils 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
Dist of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears
for its existence, in discoveriug odd things in odd places, and
ba bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
Place for to be found.
, Act 4. Magical Locometion ; or, Transition without Troll-
-9.1- In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed-
ging 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'Eeriu de Verre ; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into
though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent,
tV, suspended so as to be visible to the eye! of all present
Wizard will cause the money of hishviistsitorlsidtobteraentse.pseodri
itself, and rain into the casket, thong '
Le,"(l,' and the key in the possession of the audience.
of 0. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency
al OPacity.'
tt, 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine
bottle," •i only be in-
Pirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible
n
ha
inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will
nstible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum,
tZI of command, producing ter, not
anit unl at the
, butter-milk,
whisky,
em salts, Port, Sherry, bran( y, gin,. ;nandru,
I);Yeit. u, or any other wino or spirit re
dry,
4„-°,,ving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectlyquired finally
-1
Occupying the whole space when tightly packed.
g Dirit- 8. Halt' an Hour with the Spirits ; or,
n blo aud
„rapping,. Introducing the spirit-rappig t'aesin of the invisibles. an Exposé of
t0.c,t..9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor-
rc'ses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become
irattsformed into te flag sof victory—the banners of Er.g
Slid. France, Turkehy, and Sardinia.
Act 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comics, in which be who
seatsti himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to
4, audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi-
'loo as peculiar as perplexing.
Act; 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the
Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the
4Mience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part
nthe evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin)
Mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which
all will be produced.
Oct. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest
,7,11te to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
trnb ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
-111 he newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west-
to the eastern hemisphere.
bo'ers open each evening at half-past- 7 ; commence at 8.
titivate boxes, 1/. lie. 6d. and 11, ls., to bo obtained at the
•°-01:11ce, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress
1,1'014 ; „liver boxes, 25.. • pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d.. The
,Fix.:_ office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction
Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
..4rrnauce on Saturday. November 17, at 2 o'clock. Doors open
hall4ast 1.