DAVIS, PHIL. Mandrake the magician.

"Have you a bunch of tickets for me?" asked the young magician.

But the magician's wicked brother, plotting revenge, obtained access to the princess in disguise of a holy woman he had foully murdered, and he would have certainly slain Aladdin but for a warning of the genie, by which Aladdin was enabled to kill the magician.

At length her foster-brother solved the difficulty thus: The emperor having proclaimed that whoever cured the princess of her [supposed] madness should have her for his wife, he sent Camaralzaman to play the magician, and imparted the secret to the princess by sending her the ring she had left with the sleeping prince.

He poisoned the magician, regained the lamp, and had his palace restored to its original place in China.

" "Oh, I haven't pulled off my big one yet," replied the young magician.

She fled into the arms of her brother, whom it aroused; and, by the help of his sister's knowledge of enchantment, Argalia mastered and bound the magician.

The ballet visits the Splendide's magician.

"Put on your most beautiful dress," he said to her, "and receive the magician with smiles, leading him to believe that you have forgotten me.

"Then what do you mean?" cried the young magician.

" "Has there been a theft of our tickets?" demanded the young magician and acrobat.

Rehám immediately attended to the sign, and galloped forward to the mountain, where he discovered the magician upon its summit, deeply engaged in incantations and witchcraft.

Before drinking the magician made her a speech in praise of her beauty, but the princess cut him short, saying: "Let me drink first, and you shall say what you will afterwards."

Of course the fire which seemed to envelop the young magician was instantly put out when he leaped into the tank.

The crowd, roused to the highest degree of fury, escorted the magician with yells; but he left the enclosure, crossed Kazounde, and reentered the forest, walking nearly three miles, without resting for a moment.

Here Joseph wins the favor of his jailers and of his brother prisoners, as Paul did nearly two thousand years later, and shows remarkable gifts, even to the interpretation of dreams,a wonderful faculty to superstitious people like the Egyptians, and in which he exceeds even their magicians and priests.

DANIEL, a Hebrew of fine physique and rare endowment, who was, while but a youth, carried captive to Babylon, and trained for office in the court of the king; was found, after three years' discipline, to excel "in wisdom and understanding" all the magicians and enchanters of the realm, of which he gave such proof that he rose step by step to the highest official positions, first in the Babylonian and then in the Persian empire.

Of course you can!" exclaimed the "magician," as he had been termed by the ringmaster.

Further on, Within a deep and horrible recess, Frowns the White Demonconquer himdestroy That fell magician, and restore to sight Thy suffering king, and all his warrior train.

In the centre of the palace Miramon had set like a tower one of the tusks of Behemoth: the tusk was hollowed out into five large rooms, and in the inmost room, under a canopy with green tassels, they found the magician.

But Polish scholars will not admit this; at least, they object to giving up their great magician, and some attempts have even been made from that side to prove that theirs is the original whom the Germans appropriated under the name of Faust.

" "Shall I find mine goots?" exclaimed the delighted Dutchman; "and where is de tief?" "Art thou quite sure about the age of the moon?" inquired the pretended magician.

Now, things were going from bad to worse, when Queen Moini thought of inviting a celebrated magician, then in the north of Angola.

He did not have a very happy boyhood, and one day he ran away from the man with whom he was living and joined a traveling magician, who called himself Professor Rosello.

Perhaps I would meet the magician for whom I had looked so often in vain on sunny days, for it was quite likely that he preferred walking in bad weather when no one else was about.