 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Book Review. Hey, today we're going to look at the encyclopedia of mentalism and mentalists. All right, so for those of you who've been watching some of my past Magic Book reviews, you know that I've done reviews on card tricks and parlor, magic books, things like that. And so some of the comments in the comment section have said, hey, do more book reviews on mentalism magic. So like what are the books that are on your shelf about mentalism? And so I wanted to pick up and show you one of my favorites. So the great thing about this book is it's two books in one. Two books in one, that's why you have two authors. You have Tony Carinda and William Rosher, two books in one. It's a hardback book, hardback, large print, tons of photographs, tons of illustrations. It's only 23 bucks, 23 bucks, 23 bucks for two great publications. And I think this is a classic that belongs in every mentalist's library. Now this book contains almost 600 pages of must have information pertaining to mentalism. So two parts of the book. The first part of the book is on mind readers, masters of deception. That's the first book. And that's the part that's by William Rosher. It's a history of mentalism in the magic world. So if you've ever read Hiding the Elephant by Jim Steinmeier, it's kind of like that. The Hiding the Elephant is like a history of stage magic. And so this is more like the history of mentalism. So in this portion of the book, you're going to get 12 fascinating chapters detailing the lives of some of the great mind readers and psychics of the past and present. So there's chapters on Max Maven, Eugene Berger, Ted Anaman, Corinda, Dunninger, and many, many, many more. Now the second half of the book is 13 Steps to Mentalism by Corinda. And it's in large print, which is nice. And you might have 13 steps. You might have it as a PDF, okay? Because that PDF is floating around on the internet and a lot of people find it for free and they download it. But the problem with that is you never read it. You never read it because it's a PDF and you're just like, well, I've got it. And you kind of tried to read it, but you're like, you got bored with it. But 13 Steps to Mentalism is a book on mentalism by Tony Corinda. It was originally published as 13 small books as a course in mentalism. And then later in 1961, it was republished as a book. This book is considered by most mentalists to be the classical text. And in this volume, it's going to describe all the techniques used by mentalists to achieve what would appear to be psychic phenomena, telepathy, precognition, extrasensory perception, telekinesis, and the ability to communicate with the dead. There's chapters on the Swami gimmick. There's chapters on lip reading, mnemonics, mental systems, predictions, blindfolds, x-ray eyes, billets. There's book tests, two-person telepathy, stunts that you can perform as a medium, card tricks, question and answer routines, publicity stunts, tons of pattern, tons of presentation. Like I said, this is a classic book. This is considered to be, like this should be on your bookshelf. So the great thing about this is if you don't already have 13 Steps, or let's say you have 13 Steps as a PDF, get it as a hardback. You know, I've already made my argument for hardback books. I think hardback books should be on your shelf. But this puts 13 Steps on your bookshelf at an affordable price, but then also marries that with the Mindreader's Masters of Deception part, so that you get a little bit of a history about mentalism. You get to read that first, okay, and then you go into the 13 Steps. So having those two books together in one location for 23 bucks, hardback book, can't go wrong. Alright, so like I said, Encyclopedia of Mentalism and Mentalists, two publications in one book, Tony Carinda, William Rosher, 23 bucks, hardcover, large print, lots of photographs, lots of illustrations, you can't go wrong. I picked up my copy at pingwinmagic.com, and if you'd like to purchase yours, you can probably find it there as well. Thanks for watching. Bye.