Note 43 — Chapter XII · THE PROTEAN CABINET.
Professor Hoffmann translation
With the hint afforded by the above description the intelligent reader will have little difficulty in solving the mystery of the much improved Protean Cabinet employed by Messrs. Maskelyne and Cook in their comic sketch entitled “Will, the Witch, and the Watch,” and will be the better enabled to appreciate the ingenuity displayed not only in the construction of the cabinet, but in the rapid and complicated “changes” of the various characters.