Jordan Watts
The Gentle Art of Faking
IIn analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger; his semi-artistic vocation places him quite apart from the ordinary …
Revelations of a Spirit Medium
Written anonymously by "a working 'medium' for the past twenty years", this little book was an inspiration for a young Harry Houdi…
Rhymes for the Nursery
This early 19th-century children's poetry collection by Jane and Ann Taylor is little-known today, but contains the original version of Twin…
The Pianoforte Sonata
John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at t…
The Mesmeric Guide, for Family Use
Aimed at "those who judge of a Science by its practical utility and think that one minute spent in applying it to the benefit of mankin…
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
This collection of three publications details Edward Jenner's investigations into the connection between smallpox and coxpox, and the creati…
Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten)
Oskar Pfungst book is a detailed piece of investigative journalism looking into Clever Hans, an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have…