The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-03 00:00:00

PROFESSOR ANDERSON,

This gentleman, after an absence from Great Britain of
seven years, has returned from an extended tour round the
world. During these years he has given his wonderful en-
tertainment in every part of the globe, and under the most
peculiar circumstances.

Sometimes we hear of him before the Sultan of Turkey,
then we listen to an account of his mystifying some Rajah
India. Then the irrepressible Wizard turns up in a
gold mine, three or four hundred feet underground, per-
forming before and fraternising with the bearded gold
diggers of Australia.
Next, perhaps, we find the Professor in Honolulu, as-
tonishing the potentate with the almost unpronounceable
name of Kamehameha the 4th, who rules the Sandwich
Islands. We hear of the immediate descendants of the
Kanakis of Captain Cook's time graVely assisting Pro-
fessor Anderson to transmute water into pigeons and cocoa
nuts into silk pocket handkerchiefs. Then, while we are
mentally wondering where he will appear next, he is heard
of performing on the base of the big felled tree of Calaveras
County in California, of which a specimen is in the Crystal
Palace, and after wards " assisting," as the phrase goes, at
.an al fresco ball, in which fifteen or twenty couples dance
on the stump of the monster of the grove.
In fact, the Professor appears to be gifted with an übiquity
almost:as amazing as his most inexplicable experiments,
and he also possesses the rare and useful facility of accom-
modating himself and his entertainment to all places, sea-
sons, and persons.
For again, with indomitable perseverance, the Professor
works his way into Japan, and succeeds (in epite of all_
predictions to the contrary) in completely mystifying two
or three two-sworded Deirnies, and bewildering by the
inexhaustibility of his delusions the Japanese sages, driving
the latter in envy almost to the verge of Hari-Bari-ism, if
we may coin the expression. Next our Celestial neighbours
in Hong Kong claim a share of the Professor's attention,
and to open-mouthed Chinese, accustomed though they be
to all manner of •wonders, the Wizard illustrates the power
of making "the eyes the fools o' the other senses. It cer-:
tainly 'requires 'no small degree of expertness- to mystify
Hindoos, Chinese, Japanese, Kanakis, and genuine,
Yankees, yet the Wizard of the North appears to` have
succeeded in doing so, and to a very great extent rivalling,
if not Surpassing the fUr-famed jugglers of Hindostati..
Though we understand that Professor Anderson still
adheres to the experiments with gorgeous apparatus, which
-)lait been his specialite, we believe that he has profited by
the various experiments of Oriental magicians. Therefore,
though we' hOpe in his entertainment to see aome of our.old
friends, we are led to expect that they will appear with new
faces and in a novel garb.

We understand that the great and entirely new feature of
the entertainment is the portion illustrated by Miss Lou&
Anderson, who'; like another Madame Ida Pfeiffer, has
accompanied her father in his tour round the world, and in
this her singularly extraordinary journey has perfectly
succeeded in invariably charming our foreign and colonial
contemporaries.
From what we read and hear the young lady's power is
of a very extraordinary character. "Marvellous" is the
mildest term by which the journals of Sydney, Calcutta,
Melbourne, Hobart Town, Hong Kong, Honolulu, San
Francisco, Sacramento, Havana, and numberless other
towns, describe her portion of the programme. If half we
hear be verified by our actual observation, Miss Anderson
will eclipse all her predecessors.
Miss Anderson is said to entirely discard the
system exposed by M. Robert Houdin in his very
lively memoirs, and she illustrates the so-called " seconde-
vrie" in a manner which would, were we not disbelievers
in clairvoyance, causo us to attribute it to that agency.
Our old friend the Wizard still wages pitiless war against
the spiritualists, and has perfected his apparatus for the
expose of the humbug spiritualism. Professor Anderson
has made an arrangement with the directors of the Grand
St. James's Hall, which is to be fitted up as hia "Psycho.
manteurn" in a manner which he promises shall eclipse all
his previous efforts in the metropolis.