The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-16
Herrmann's Necromantic Eastern Delu-
siOns.

Had the wonderful conurer who performing nightly at
the Academy OF Music crowded and delighted audiences
lived and performed as he does in former times he
would have been burned demon in human form. In
ancient times in pagan countries he would have been
dei6ed. Even in these enlightened times people do not
feel quite certain that there not something super
human in him. that he has not secret connection with
the other world. We have mysterious and shrink
ing chances his feet he passed along though they
seem to have the ordinary form of human feet Many
persons believe that his open declaration of having
nothing to do with spirits, either evil good is only
made to hide the fact Such persons say, naturally
enough, that the real spirits, their agents
mediums have never done anything as extraordinary
Hermann and therefore he perform through the
powers give nby the spirits though he denies it, This
logic is very spirtuastc and the inference may be
stated for what we know. All we do know is that
the performances most astounding and Incompetent
sibe, and satisfied that If those sapien ndivdu
ais who trying the spirits at Hope Chapel to try
their hands Hermann they would find much harder
nut crack than in the Davenports Thorpes, Coches
ter or any other sprituasts or conjurers. steady
sensible looking gentleman who first saw Hermann per-
form last evening gave expression to his establishment
by saying, lf any one had told me such things a. have
seen, before saw them, should have pit ched into him
for lying and insulting me-" And really the feats per-
formed so incredible to those who have not seen
them.
Almost all the tricks are new None of them have
been in this country before and some OF them are
recent creations of Hcrrmann's fertile brain.
The Japanese frame card trick is one of these This
frame has glass face and looks like small looking glass
II is held up the stage distance from the cOnurcr
and at his motion only-not touch-the cards, which
persons in the audience have drawn from a pack or
thought Of, spring into the frame, showing their aces
through the glass to the audience when each one recog
nizes the card drawn or thought Of The frame Is then
taken pieces and handed around TO show there is no
concealed mechanism Ia 1t.
The egg ''ching ching" trick is another new one and
very astonishing An egg in ordinary glass tunlber
is handed to in the audience Hermann being
on the stage with different article in his hand at dis
lance of ntynve feet from the person holding the
tumbler lie then without moving causes the article
lie holds in his hand to take the place OF the egg in the
tumbler, white the egg IS transferred 10 his hand
The most graceful and laugbsbe, and at the same time
most surprising trick is that of filling hat taken from
the audience with silver coins which Mr. Hermann picks
up wherever he chooses He finds them floating in the
air and chases them as boys do butterflies; he takes
them from the hair Of the head the noslrls and gar
this solid money from NOTHING nd hbit,nm.
The trick Of the birds and bird cage Is 10 many the
most astounding Of all. largo bird cage filled with
canarcs Is placed on the stage; another is suspended
empty at great distance over the audience In an in
slant the cage on the Stage disappears without beng
touched and the birds arc found in the empty cage
pended in the centre of the Academy
The incomprchensibe decaner is perfectly wonderful
Hermann takes an ordinary glass decanter and seve
raj silver dollars around to persons In the audience and
requests them to put the dollars in the dccanter This is
found to be impossible because the neck OF the decancr
is small he then places the decanier under oval
mirror The stage, he standing fifteen feet from the
mirror After hat nc sends the silver dollars one after
thu other upon the surface Of the Mirror where they
stick glued there Then, without going nearer, he
sends them inio the decahcr from which, az Is shown
to the audience they can only be extracted by breaking
the decanter
With these snd other new ana wonderful tricks the
great prestidgitaeur nightly astonishes the public He
ot only surprises his audience but keeps IL in a con-
tinual merrInent There is stage paraphernaia All
the tricks are done without aid and amidst the specta
tors Next week there is 70 he an entirely new pro-
gramme; but those who have not the present one
ought to lei the matinee Of to-day the performance
tonight pass without gong TO the Academy.