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OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE: —TH
EVENING, and every evening during the
Week, the GRAND ELEITSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great
wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety
ei incidents; continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary
erects.
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
°Ms thing ; but it is a comedy really performed by the cora-
l'anY ; 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
'hi°4444lcaladielmles rbA4A-Ja,kva.aiightly Wed Si* Lyaank
eatre 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.
Ile would attribute that success to three causes; first, that
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
sPared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on
the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment
t,f the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly,
that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those
;leho honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that
et is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor-
*lnlay should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where-
ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by
Its'nrting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner,
o designing have succeeded in making dupes of the
n':edulous.
The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro-
4,s'assor 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
la,anY 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 Andersen's exposé of spirit-rapping and
is 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
,eonsraunications which reach him on the subject. He regrets
',hat many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
tepeefrom their position in society and their well-known in-
tual 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, withinthe
i'Yeeurn, 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
ra'nes of the great and learned of the land should
ye been made to figure in the documents emanating
from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
;Meted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem-
oer 20, and taken by that journal from the New York, Spiri-
kat Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American
spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster
frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what ho 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 Scotchman by birth, and now
in 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
York, per annum if he would perform at his museum in New
k. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could
be brought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was
l'efused. 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,n and in very ,bad health : but he would have been afraid
17 losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
us life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
'Le 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 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
Illnight be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
this•spirit-rapping—does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse-
ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ;
-elite when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
e.,eni
aim have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
eitsWindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
v- N, J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
hlxites a book on the subject, ho considers
mechanism by which
s effected and the mischief to which it tends. In the
Ater • '
12411 g Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
David 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
''virit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
Purposes- In the Morning Advertiser of the following day.
°Weyer there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
Who Was present when he and Lord Brougham had their
table
with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the
'able (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac-
eordion 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-
With such a statement, printed for the edification of
the People of tho 19th century, with the facts before us that
Most talented men of the day are permitting themselves
14:1 be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the
Rreatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the
has
of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
'as, actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall,
professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
tB of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
ss, be received by the people of England as genuine honest at-
tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual
4ngelers.
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.
rig', the programme being continually changed. Grand
fashionable Day Performance, on Saturday, October 13, at 2
r
eeleek ; the programme being thus arranged ;
, rart 1.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
i-'aPabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
3' magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
i
48,), and. illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
.e air,
Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
oft Producing animated nature from fire and water only, and
,s'e Possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most
s'eroplex forms of ornithological existence.
Act 3, Le Liv-re des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own
pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the
C-vening'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
ne 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-
?nation—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
atself, 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
4,11(1 Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible
bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only he 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, rum, whisky,
hoyeau, 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.
e Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of
spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and
tocsin of the invisibles.
the Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor-
phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become
Mnsformed 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
t74ts himself will under the magic spell, and appear to
t'ile audience, und rocircumstances least expected, in a poi-
°n as peculiar as perplexing.
• , Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the
'uoleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the
'dience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part
14 f the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin)
into which all things will travel, and out of which
all Will produced.
Att. 12. The Homological Evaporations ; or, the Shortest
Routerid to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
ef. the
ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
e,e' 0 newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west.
11,„ to the eastern hemisphere.
lat,r_rveztotresboopxeens,each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8.
1/. Ils. 6d. and 1?. ls., to be obtained at the
tierxe;olEce, or at the principal libraries; stalls, 4s. ; dress
. 3s. ; upper boxes, pit, gallery, 6d. The
6 -Loface is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction
/0,1
`4l-r• Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
' ober ee on Saturday, Oct 13, at 2 o'clock, Doors open
61.11)11it 1.