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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 iferform 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-
iravagataa, 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
and by means of whose generous aid he
announce Magic and Mystery for con-
He believes that no professor of his art
in any place been honoured ev'tle an'
extensive, so decided, and 'so unusual.
hat success to three causes ; first, that
inment he has placed before his visitors
tdulously devoted to the attainment of
peculiar art, and to perfect which he
,e in every clime ; secondly, that he has
- _ 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 endeavourings 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 oppc,
tueity 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
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 eaken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst
1423,Y of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which
end a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri-
tualists." Judging shnply 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
'or 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
Lyreh-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the
eure, how 'tables can be made to rap is exhibited
and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this
Public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
Anderson'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
from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thufsday, Septem-
ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri-
tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American
apirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster
frankly confesses that he is sorely putzled' 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 Scetchman by birth, and new
in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations
without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout
thitAnglo-Saxon world as a splendidhumbug, offered him 2.000
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
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 bad health : but he would have been afraid
of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
lie 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 spiritnalism." It is cer-
taiely 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 by
this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse-
tient to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
10 be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ;
but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
-England have the temerity to subscribe thelr names to so gross
a,svrindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
Rev, N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
Writes a b6ok on the subject, be considers it t be time for
hire to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
David Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
4-18.vid 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 ore
Who was present when he and Lord Brougham had their I
'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 largo 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-
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 conveaLioa"
has actually been advertised to be held 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-
tempts to provide au 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 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, on Saturday, October 13, 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
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. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies : er, Puck's Own
Pocket Book, with Prck himself within it. Typifying the
evening's entertainment in the production of the very

ruinous from a small volume, in the extra2tion 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 fourd.
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 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 cause the money of his visitors to transport
itself, and raia ir to the casket, though its lid be closed,
locked, and the key in the possession of the audience.
Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; er, the Transparency
of Opacity.
Act, 7. A ICew Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wino
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,
psom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, n
IlOyeau, or any other wine or spirit required L whdfiinskyall;
Proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry,
and occupying the whole space when tightly
pac kned xpose of
Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or,
aE.
Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and
tocsin of the invisibles.
t m
Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property
orof
the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange nso a
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 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 produced.
Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest
Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
ridding our elves 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. Gd. and 1/, ls., to be obtained at the
Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; mills, 4s. ; dress
circle, 3s. ; upper bones, 2s. ; pit, Is. ; gallery, Gd. The
from 11 till 5, under the direction
Box-office is open daily,
of Mr. Chatterton, jun. . Grand fashionable Morning Per-
•formance on Saturday October 27, at 2 e clock. Doors open
at half-put 1. .

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