A PRACTICAL JOURNAL OF 
HOME ARTS. 
Vol. III. NEW YORK, APRIL, 1880. No. 4. 
magicians who, "having just returned 
from India, where, after many years of 
research and travel," etc., etc., was the 
person who appeared in London some 
years ago, under the name of Colonel 
Stodare. 
As it was rather unusual to find a 
Colonel in the British army in the role 
of a magician, he drew houses crowded 
with the best people of the city. 
Of course he had never held a commis- 
sion in the army, and was, in fact, a son 
of old John Henry Anderson, the "Wizard 
of the Noi^th, but this fact was not known, 
and his little hall was nightly filled with 
an audience, amongst which was no slight 
sprinkling of scarred veterans, genuine 
generals, colonels, and what not. 
One night a little knot of these officers 
got together, and, when the performance 
was over, remained in the hall, deter- 
mined to have a chat with Stodare. As 
he was about to leave one of them ad- 
dressed him : 
" Good evening. Colonel." 
" Good evening, sir." 
"Pray, Colonel, what was your regi- 
ment?" 
" I beg pardon, my regiment ? Keally, 
I do not understand you." 
Lessons in Magic —X. 
RAYELLERS re- 
turning from the 
East bring with 
them such won- 
derful stories of 
the marvels per- 
formed by the 
Indian Conjurers, 
that those gentle- 
men are looked 
upon by many as 
real miracle- 
workers. There 
is no doubt, how- 
ever, that there are many persons at home 
equally as clever as the copper-colored 
jugglers, and, in all probability, far more 
so. 
Be this as it may, a favorite announce- 
ment among professional conjurers is 
"An Oriental Programme," and they 
have often endeavored to present similar 
tricks to those narrated by the newspaper 
"special correspondent in the East." 
Among the most successful of these 
