H. J. Burlingame
H. J. Burlingame
Hardin Jasper Burlingame (1852–1915) was an American magician and magic historian.[1]
Burlingame had taken lessons from the magician David Bamberg. He later used the stage name "Jasper Bamberg" when he performed in Chicago.[2]
Burlingame is most well known for his book Hermann the Magician (1897), a biography of the magician Alexander Herrmann.[3]
He also wrote a biography of Baron Hartwig Seeman, a noted Swedish magician.[4]
Publications
- Tricks in Magic, Illusions, and Mental Phenomena (1895)
- Herrmann the Great: The Famous Magician's Wonderful Tricks (1897). Reprinted as Herrmann the Magician: His Life, His Secrets (1897)
- How To Read People's Minds (1905)
- Around the World With a Magician and a Juggler (1891)
- Leaves from Conjurers' Scrap books: Or, Modern Magicians and Their Works (1891)
- History of Magic and Magicians (1895)
- Magician's Handbook: Tricks and Secrets of the World's Greatest Magician, Herrmann the Great (1942)
References
- ↑ Millstein, Denise Tischler. (2010). Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment. Routledge. p. 166. ISBN 978-0754668886
- ↑ Christopher, Milbourne. (1990 edition, originally published in 1962). Magic: A Picture History. Dover Publications. p. 179. ISBN 0-486-26373-8
- ↑ Claflin, Edward; Sheridan, Jeff. (1977). Street Magic: An Illustrated History of Wandering Magicians and Their Conjuring Arts. Dolphin Books. p. 147. ISBN 978-0385128643
- ↑ Siegel, Lee. (1991). Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India. University of Chicago Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0226756875
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