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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.
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Add The Humbugs of the World, Ebenezer Scrooge's cry of 'Humbug!' is well known throughout the English-speaking world. But what did he mean? In this entertaining book, P. T. Barnum (1810–91), defines 'humbug' as 'glittering appearances by which to suddenly arrest public attention, and, The Humbugs of the World to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add The Humbugs of the World, Ebenezer Scrooge's cry of 'Humbug!' is well known throughout the English-speaking world. But what did he mean? In this entertaining book, P. T. Barnum (1810–91), defines 'humbug' as 'glittering appearances by which to suddenly arrest public attention, and, The Humbugs of the World to your collection on WonderClub |