He was not Chinese at all, but an American vaudeville artist and conjuror called William Ellsworth Robinson.
The Original Chinese Conjuror is presented as a vaudeville show in the pavilion of a seaside pier.
At these parties his feelings were like those of a conjuror who always expects his trick to be found out at any moment.
Born in Denmark of a noble Swedish family, a politician, as were all his contemporaries of distinction, Tycho, though no conjuror, could.foresee the advent of some great northern hero.