| Summary: |
- Summary by:
- Pat Deveney
- Title:
- Mahatma.
- Subtitle:
- The Only Paper in the United States devoted to the Interests of Magicians, Spiritualists, Mesmerists, etc.
- Motto:
- Other Titles:
- Published:
- 1895-1906
- Frequency:
- Monthly
- Location:
- New York, NY.
- Language:
- English.
- Editor(s):
- Walter G. Peterkin, editor and publisher.
- Publisher(s):
- Corporate Author:
- Society of American Magicians1/1, 1895-1906, with a hiatus between November 1895 and February 1898.
- Succession:
- Description:
Despite its promising title, this is a stage-magic journal, but the close relationship with phenomenal spiritualism is obvious in the advertisements for magical apparatus. It also featured a series of articles on the development of American prestidigitation by Henry Ridgely Evans, who was himself a trained magician. Rowell's American Newspaper Directory for 1900 says the journal was spiritualist and was started in 1898 and had a circulation of less than 1,000. |
