A tour of hoaxes, tricks and outrageous gimmicks, this book is the product of the American showman P. T. Barnum (1810â 91), now famous for observing that 'every crowd has a silver lining'. First published in 1866, it provides an entertaining glimpse into the bizarre world of Victorian 'humbug'.
A tour of hoaxes, tricks and outrageous gimmicks, this book is the product of the American showman P. T. Barnum (1810â 91), now famous for observing that 'every crowd has a silver lining'. First published in 1866, it provides an entertaining glimpse into the bizarre world of Victorian 'humbug'.
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Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
The American showman, businessman, and politician Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891) is best known for his promotion of well-known hoaxes and for co-founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871-2017) with James Anthony Bailey. Although he declared himself: "I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me," he was also a novelist, publisher, and philanthropist. His personal objective, according to his detractors, was "to fill his own coffers with cash." The proverb "There's a sucker born every minute" is often attributed to him, despite the lack of any documentation to support this. Before relocating to New York City in 1834, Barnum launched a weekly newspaper in his early twenties and started a small business. He began his career in show business by joining "Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theater," a variety troupe, and shortly after that, he bought Scudder's American Museum, which he renamed after himself. He promoted hoaxes and human oddities like the Fiji mermaid and General Tom Thumb using the museum as a platform.
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Publisher's note Introduction Part I. Personal Reminiscences: 1. General view of the subject 2. Definition of the word humbug 3. Monsieur Mangin, the French humbug 4. Old Grizzly Adams 5. The golden pigeons 6. The whales, the angel fish, and the golden pigeon 7. Pease's horehound candy 8. Brandreth's pills Part II. The Spiritualists: 9. The Davenport brothers, their rise and progress 10. The spirit-rapping and medium humbugs 11. The 'Ballot-test' 12. Spiritual 'letters on the arm' 13. Demonstrations by 'Samson' under a table 14. Spiritual photographing 15. 'Banner of light' 16. Spiritualist humbugs waking up 17. The Davenport brothers shown up once more Part III. Trade and Business Impositions: 18. Adulterations of food 19. Adulteration in drinks 20. The Peter Funks and their functions 21. Lottery sharks 22. Another lottery humbug 23. A California coal mine Part IV. Money Manias: 24. The petroleum humbug 25. The tulipomania 26. John Bull's great money humbug 27. Business humbugs Part V. Medicine and Quacks: 28. Doctors and imagination 29. The consumptive remedy 30. Monsignore Cristoforo Rischi, or Il Créso, the nostrum-vendor of Florence Part VI. Hoaxes: 31. The Twenty-seventh-street ghost 32. The moon hoax 33. The miscegenation hoax Part VII. Ghosts and Witchcrafts: 34. Haunted houses 35. Haunted houses 36. Magical humbugs 37. Witchcraft 38. Charms and incantations Part VIII. Adventurers: 39. The Princess Cariboo, or, the Queen of the Isles 40. Count Cagliostro, alias Joseph Balsamo, known also as 'Cursed Joe' 41. The diamond necklace 42. The Count de St Germain: sage, prophet, and magician 43. Riza Bey, the Persian envoy to Louis XIV Part IX. Religous Humbugs: 44. Diamond cut diamond, or, Yankee superstitions 45. A religious humbug on John Bull 46. The first humbug in the world 47. Heathen humbugs 48. Modern heathen humbugs 49. Ordeals.
Publisher's note Introduction Part I. Personal Reminiscences: 1. General view of the subject 2. Definition of the word humbug 3. Monsieur Mangin, the French humbug 4. Old Grizzly Adams 5. The golden pigeons 6. The whales, the angel fish, and the golden pigeon 7. Pease's horehound candy 8. Brandreth's pills Part II. The Spiritualists: 9. The Davenport brothers, their rise and progress 10. The spirit-rapping and medium humbugs 11. The 'Ballot-test' 12. Spiritual 'letters on the arm' 13. Demonstrations by 'Samson' under a table 14. Spiritual photographing 15. 'Banner of light' 16. Spiritualist humbugs waking up 17. The Davenport brothers shown up once more Part III. Trade and Business Impositions: 18. Adulterations of food 19. Adulteration in drinks 20. The Peter Funks and their functions 21. Lottery sharks 22. Another lottery humbug 23. A California coal mine Part IV. Money Manias: 24. The petroleum humbug 25. The tulipomania 26. John Bull's great money humbug 27. Business humbugs Part V. Medicine and Quacks: 28. Doctors and imagination 29. The consumptive remedy 30. Monsignore Cristoforo Rischi, or Il Créso, the nostrum-vendor of Florence Part VI. Hoaxes: 31. The Twenty-seventh-street ghost 32. The moon hoax 33. The miscegenation hoax Part VII. Ghosts and Witchcrafts: 34. Haunted houses 35. Haunted houses 36. Magical humbugs 37. Witchcraft 38. Charms and incantations Part VIII. Adventurers: 39. The Princess Cariboo, or, the Queen of the Isles 40. Count Cagliostro, alias Joseph Balsamo, known also as 'Cursed Joe' 41. The diamond necklace 42. The Count de St Germain: sage, prophet, and magician 43. Riza Bey, the Persian envoy to Louis XIV Part IX. Religous Humbugs: 44. Diamond cut diamond, or, Yankee superstitions 45. A religious humbug on John Bull 46. The first humbug in the world 47. Heathen humbugs 48. Modern heathen humbugs 49. Ordeals.
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