Magician's Tour, Up and Down and Round About the Earth

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The above is intended as an ingenious means of deluding people into reading a preface, who would skip it directly if the Word Preface were printed on the top in big letters. But as a junior devil I am naturally of an antic disposition, and so may be easily imagined to be Sitting on my reader s shoulder grinning, and girding, and mopping, and mowing heartily at the success of my device.