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-114 OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. --- THIS
EVENING, and every evening during the
week, the GRAND ELEVSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
ancIeMYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great
Wfreeed of the North, in' 12 acts, with ever-changing varie:y
of incidents, continucine surprises, novel and extraordinary
effects.
Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
setisiner distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of
aneusement. 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 tleough everything becomes metamorphosed before the
eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any
one thing; but ifis" a comedy really performed by the com-
pany; a melodrama replete with startling positions and une-
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 enabledete announce Magic and Mystery for cor-
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 hie-presententertainment 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 ,tery 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
of the first mechanicians and artists of: the day ; and thirdly,
that, _while endeavouring to provide amusement for those
Whcehonciuf him with their presence, he has not forgotten that
it is possible to afford information also; and that the oppor-
tuneVy 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,
they 'designing have succeeded in making dupes of the
ereduloue. : •
The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro-
fessor Anderson has received, from the time of-opening the.
theetre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in-
terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst
many. Of,them.beir 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 ellustration 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 Anderpon to reply -at length ,to a tithe of the
communications which reach him on ,the subject. He regrets
thatmany 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
ated, elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this
public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
Anderson's only . modeeef replying at full length to his
multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the
taws 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-
' tractcd from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem-
cer2o, 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 :—" Sir David Brewster
frahkly 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-
rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a clues-
;Cern 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'ltaly, is a remarkable medium for 'all the manifestations
without apparatus: Barnum, who is well-known throughout
the Anglo-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
lee...bpught. Yfe was somewhat astonished when his offer was
reused. Hurd°, 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.
Ile-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
Might be supposed to be sang. Even if Barnum does believe
in spirit-rapping--dries spirit-rapping gain or lose by
this 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 :
but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
a swindle, when he finds thief) the l'lcumbent of Wortley; (the
Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts 1-. is belief in it, and
• writes a book on the subject, be considers it t be time for
• him, to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
Morning Advertiser of Octbber 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 tho 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 one
ee who was present when ho and Lord Brougham had their
seance 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 ac-
cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my band and
then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's
tight band, 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 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
subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
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 an 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, November 1/, 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 thit which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
Inn, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
lee air.
Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
' of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and
thcepossibility 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
evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu-
.
e minus 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' Ecein 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 aadience.
Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency
of Opacity.
_ Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus; or, the Novel Wine
and Spirit Sem. An improvement upon the ineehaustible
bottle," inasmu3h 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,
Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky,
noyeau, or any other wine or spirit required ; and finally
proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perefectly dry,
and occupying the whole space when tightly packd.
an Expose of
_ Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or,
Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rappna table and
• g
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 Wags 'of victory—the banners of Etc
land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia.
Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comas, in which be who
seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to
the aedience, 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 peodneed.
Act. 12, The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest
Route to the Antipodes- Illustrating t'ie easiest mode of
eedding•anreelves of a troublesome friend; and the advantages
•f the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west-
ern to the eastern hemisphere.
Doors oiien each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8.
Private boxes, it. I).s. fd, and it. is., to be obtained at the
Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. - dress
circle, ; upper' Nixes, ; 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 on Saturdayt November 17,A 2 o'clock. Doors open
at half-past 1.

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