Unabridged republication of the original 1940 ed. published by F. A. Stokes Co., New York.

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Foreword -- Magic with String and Rope -- The Dissolving String -- Hand in Pocket -- The Two Captives -- The Cut and Restored String (1) -- The Cut and Restored String (2) -- The Magic Loops -- Fingers and Thumbs -- The Nose and String Trick -- The Ring and String Trick -- The Scissors and String Trick -- The String in the Buttonhole -- The Dissolving Knot -- The Laced Fingers -- The String through the Fingers -- The Magically Tied Knot -- The String and Straw Trick -- String from Nowhere -- Through the Fingertips -- The Ring Magically Knotted on a String -- The Vanishing Knots -- The Knotted Rope -- The Decapitation Rope Trick -- The Dissolving Loops -- The Chevalier Rope Escape -- The Bound-wrist Rope Escape -- The Thumb-tie Escape -- The Great Chair Escape -- The Neck and Knee Rope Tie -- The Behind-the-Back Rope Tie -- Dissolving Knots -- The Twentieth-Century Rope Tie -- The Chair Rope Tie -- "Knots, Splices, and Fancy Knot Work" -- Knots -- Elementary Knots -- Half Hitch -- Overhand Knot -- Figure-eight Knot -- Stevedore's Knot -- Knots for Joining Two Ropes Together -- Square Knot or Reef Knot -- Granny -- Surgeon's Knot -- "Sheet Bend, Weaver's Knot, or Becket Bend" -- Double Sheet Bend -- Becket Hitch -- Heaving Line Bend -- Carrick Bend -- Hawser Bend or Half Hitch and Seizing Bend -- Reeving Line Bend -- Bowline Bend -- Fisherman's Knot or Englishman's Knot -- Double Fisherman's Knot -- Knots for Securing Ropes to Rings or Spars -- Clove Hitch -- Timber Hitch -- Timber Hitch and Half Hitch -- Two Half Hitches -- Killick Hitch -- Rolling Hitch -- Magnus Hitch -- Lifting Hitch or Well-pipe Hitch -- Fisherman's Bend or Anchor Bend -- Studdingsail Halyard Bend -- Studdingsail Tack Bend or Topsail Sheet Bend -- Slippery Hitch -- Lark's Head -- Treble Lark's Head -- Catspaw -- Blackwall Hitch -- Bill Hitch -- Knots Used to Make a Loop or Noose -- Bowline -- Bowline on a Bight -- Spanish Bowline -- Double Bowline -- Running Bowline -- "Slip Knot, Slip Noose, or Running Knot" -- Crabber's Eye Knot or Crossed Running Knot -- Buntline Hitch -- Fisherman's Eye Knot or True Lover's Knot -- Half Hitch and Seizing -- Midshipman's Hitch -- The Clinch -- Outside Clinch -- Inside Clinch -- "Hackamore, Jar Sling, or Jug Sling" -- Masthead Knot or Jury Knot -- Tomfool Knot -- Shamrock Knot or Japanese Masthead Knot -- Artillery Knot or Man-harness -- Knots Used for Shortening a Rope -- Sheepshank -- Man-of-War Sheepshank or Knotted Sheepshank -- Overhand Knot for Shortening a Sling -- Ornamental and Other Knots -- Three-Strand Turk's Head -- Four-Strand Turk's Head -- English Diamond Knot -- Monkey's Fist -- Crown Knot -- Wall Knot and Double Wall Knot -- Wall and Crown Knot -- Double Wall and Crown or Man-rope Knot -- Matthew Walker Knot -- Double Matthew Walker Knot -- Lanyard Knot -- Diamond Knot -- Whipping and Seizing -- Whipping -- Seizing -- Round Seizing -- Flat Seizing -- Racking Seizing -- Splicing -- Short Splice -- Long Splice -- Eye Splice -- How to Make a Grommet -- Square-knot Work -- How Square-knot Work Is Done -- Making Successive Rows -- Pointing Square-knot Work -- Flats -- Spiral Formations -- Open Mesh Work -- Half-Hitch Work -- Length of Strands -- Tension Hooks -- Square-knot Belts -- Square-knot Shade Pulls -- Square-knot Neckties -- Square-knot Centerpiece -- Square-knot Handbag -- Netting and Simple Knot-work -- A Netted Cord Hammock -- A Tennis Net -- Knotted Bags -- A Portiere -- A Tied.