The first scene is the magician's cave where he plans his evil schemes.

A long table was covered with scrolls, skulls, crucibles, crystals, star-charts, geomantic figures, and other appurtenances of a magician's calling.

Cold, poignant, glittering as steel, it rested upon a socket of the repulsive hue of jaundiced ivory, with no vestige of a foot or anything to relieve its naked horror as, rigid and lifeless, yet plainly with a mighty force behind it, it pointed at the magician's heart.

She had secured a particle of the philosopher's stonea slender outfit for a magician's daughter!

The genie appeared, and at the magician's command carried him, together with the palace and the princess in it, to a lonely place in Africa.

Max often allowed his thoughts to bridge the many miles that separated Carson from that lodge in the wilderness; and it required no magician's wand to enable him to see in his mind's eye the delightful surroundings that made the strange fur farm a possible El Dorado, where Fortune was liable to knock on the door and demand entrance.

The most singular thing is, that, while they are represented as having been published after the magician's death, some of them are, nevertheless, marked with dates as early as 1509, 1510, and 1511,and with the names of Lion, (Lyons,) London, etc., as the places where they were printed.

Has not living become subject to a magician's "presto"?

If Mr. Moore were to describe the heights of Chimboraco, instead of the loneliness, the vastness and the shadowy might, he would only think of adorning it with roseate tints, like a strawberry-ice, and would transform a magician's fortress in the Himmalaya (stripped of its mysterious gloom and frowning horrors) into a jeweller's toy, to be set upon a lady's toilette.

Thalaba drew from the magician's finger a ring which gave him command over the spirits.

Pagan influences yield them spirit-stirring inspiration; yet the antique models of style, which proved no less embarrassing to their successors than Saul's armour was to David, weigh lightly, like a magician's breast-plate, upon their heroic strength.

The Arab boy was trusted with the ink in place of the European, and on the magician's asking him the leading question "Do you see a little man?"

But now into the room came the magician's wife, Gisèle.

Mrs. Magician's mistake.

Magician's manual; tricks and routines, with instructions for expert performance by the amateur.

Magician's manual; tricks and routines, with instructions for expert performance by the amateur.

The magician's cloak.

She raved in her turn, and instinctively repeated the magician's gestures.

Without this incident, neither Dick Sand nor the black would have known Mrs. Weldon's retreat, and Hercules would not have ventured to Kazounde in a magician's dress.

To spring upon the magician, despoil him of his baggage, and of his magician's vestments, to fasten him to the foot of a tree with liane knots that the Davenports themselves could not have untied, to paint his body, taking the sorcerer's for a model, and to act out his character in charming and controlling the rains, had been the work of several hours.

It was as if some magician's wand, touching the crest of an inbreaking storm-wave, had instantaneously frozen it, white-slavering foam and all, to motionless rigidity.

The hunt over, Aurora and her ladies are conducted to the leafy heart of the island, where, as by the touch of a magician's wand, a gorgeous Eastern tent has sprung up, and here another sumptuous entertainment is prepared for them.

At first it seemed far off, as seen in the magician's glass.

Capital of Rother, 89; arrival of magician's vessel at, 93. BAU'TA.

Over them, the most insignificant of his verses can throw a deep enchantment, like the faintest wavings of a magician's wand.