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This book is a republication of the 1920 edition of Houdini's Miracle Mongers and Their Methods, as originally published by E. P. Dutton & Company. In it, Houdini collects notes and stories about various dime museum attractions and circus wonders he met personally while traveling or learned about while studying his profession. These tales include feats of sword swallowers, fire eaters, poison defiers, human ostriches, and more. Do not try them at home. Or anywhere else. This Centennial Edition appears 101 years after the original E. P. Dutton publication. One year escaped us.

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Mr. Houdini's volume Miracle Mongers and Their Methods, is indubitably the most valuable treatise on the subject that has been issued by E. P. Dutton & Co. this season. It is a long and wordy betrayal of the secrets of the fire-eaters, the sword swallowers, the snake-biters, the three-legged boys, the glass-chewers, and other entertaining mountebanks who astound and fascinate such members of the human race as frequent the sideshows. -Percy Hammond, Chicago Tribune, February 5, 1921 After reading it anybody can do these little parlor tricks. However, that is not the question. The question is, how many will want to. As far as we are concerned, the fire eaters, resisters, poison eaters, etc., will always have their field to themselves. -Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February, 12, 1921

Mr. Houdini's volume Miracle Mongers and Their Methods, is indubitably the most valuable treatise on the subject that has been issued by E. P. Dutton & Co. this season. It is a long and wordy betrayal of the secrets of the fire-eaters, the sword swallowers, the snake-biters, the three-legged boys, the glass-chewers, and other entertaining mountebanks who astound and fascinate such members of the human race as frequent the sideshows. -Percy Hammond, Chicago Tribune, February 5, 1921 After reading it anybody can do these little parlor tricks. However, that is not the question. The question is, how many will want to. As far as we are concerned, the fire eaters, resisters, poison eaters, etc., will always have their field to themselves. -Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February, 12, 1921

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