Dissolving Coin is highly changed from the original, incorporating some modern principles... and I
think it stinks. Harlan's routine is a bunch of half-ideas that obscure the core of the trick. And
the trick now requires a special gimmick to be purchased, which wasn't required in Tarbell's time.
Vanishing coin in hankie: a trick that was in a kit I had as a kid, slightly updated in
method. Harlan gives good advice on presentation that is more useful than the actual trick.
Coin through hankie: a justified classic. Even if hankies aren't common any more, there are
enough applications for the principle that it is still useful. Excellently taught.
Pencil/coin: I think there's a bit of double-misdirection in Harlan's performance that doesn't
work. If you direct attention to your left hand then reveal there's nothing in it, then produce
something from your left hand, the spectator will think it was hidden in the hand all along.
Mixed bag
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