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ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. - THIS
EVENING, and every evening during the
week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
stud MYSTERY, •by Professor ANDERSON, the Great
Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety
Of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary
erect_

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
them perform their parts with the principal actor, some of
on the, stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition,
for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the
eyes *f the- visitors no one can be positive that he sees any
one thing ; eeut it is a comedy really performed by the Qom-
Party ; 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 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. Ho believes that no professor of his art
Pas at any .time or in any place been honoured with an
amount of saecess- so ifttensive.,•so decided, and so unusual:
Ye would attribute that success to three causes; first, that
111 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
of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly,
that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those
7110 honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that
in 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,
lesorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner,
he 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
elsesulted, Professor Ailerson's expose of spirit-rapping awl•
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
eoremunications which reach him on the subject. He regrete
that man-
y 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 concerts 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
irit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the
l'Yeeum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited
public
and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this
exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
n'eeeoll'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
have been made to figure in the documents emanating
frome the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
Lra_clescl from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem-
ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri-
`uai Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American
• apirit-
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-
riai 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 loft England, and the following account of
""0, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648:
This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now
'n 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
("rollers per annum if he would peorm at his museum in New
York, Barnum then took it or
granted that medium, 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-
Phan, and in very had health : but he would have been afraid
iejf. losing his power as a medium; and he would sooner lose
Elfs 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
ie 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
fmight be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
111. sPirit-rapping—does spirit-rapping, gain or lose by
L is accession to its adherents I and, with Barnum's endorse-
ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
but,e negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe
v4l 'when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
.`gland have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
-swindle, when he finds that the Incumbent of Wortley (the
her, N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
Writes a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for
hire to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
'Lis effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
David Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
avid Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel,
111 company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that
which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that
lirdrit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
tirPeses. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day,
vrever, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
lance
was present when he and Lord Brougham had their
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 se.
ectdion 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-
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 age is now engaged in making it the
subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
has actually been advertised tcebe held in St. Martin's-hall,
Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
late 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 bano 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 ever before been assembled within its walls in so
!hod a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even.
the programme being continually changed. Grand
fashionable Day Performance,' on Saturday, December 1, 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-
hurt, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
he air.
Act 2. The Aqua-Axial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and
the Possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most
eocepleee forms of ornithological existence.
Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueils 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, in 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, 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'Ecrin de Verre ; or, the Casket of Creesus. 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 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.r., of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk,
Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky,
11°Yeau, or any other wine or spirit required; and finally
Proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry,
lend occupying the whole space when tightly packed.
Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Exbpe os6
and
Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping ta l
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 be 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 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 Shortest
Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
of the newly-discovered dig-terrestrial passage from the west-
ern to the eastern hemisphere.
Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8.
Private boxes, it. lls. 6d. and le Is., to be obtained at the
Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. • dress
Circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, is. ; gallery, 6d. The
Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction
of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
formance onTaturda.y, December 1, at 2 o'clock. Doors open
athalflast 1.