FOREWORD.

SOME years ago, I decided to write a book to be called Magicians I have Met. When I told Harry Houdini of my idea, he asked me if he could use the title for a book of his own that was then nearing completion. To this I agreed, and told Houdini that I would delay the publication of my own work in order that our books should not clash.

Since that time I have collected further valuable material, and this, together with some of the original stories, is published under the present title of Sensational Tales of Mystery Men.

This book is not intended to be an autobiography. Most of the published life stories I have read have bored me to distraction, and I decided long ago that I should never be one of the vast army of writers who inflict their uninteresting experiences on a patient and long suffering public.

WILL GOLDSTON.

LONDON.