Raymond, Maurice F (Morris Raymond Saunders). The Great RaymondÕs Magic Bricks. Circa 1910. Four numbered blocks rearrange themselves in any order at the command of the magician or his audience, while covered in a wooden tube. Tube 12 _Ó high. With only one card for stand. Well worn from use. (See Rauscher, The Great Raymond, page 286. Perhaps best-known as Cube-A-Libre, this effect was a popular favorite in the first quarter of the twentieth century, and was invented by P.T. Selbit, who is best remembered as the inventor of the Sawing Through a Woman illusion.)