Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

Androcles and the Lion

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Androcles and the Lion

HE story of An- him. Androcles gave himself up for lost; drocles and the but the lion, instead of treating him as lion is told by he…

Androcles and the Lion: Lions

His strength is so prodigious that a single stroke of his paw is sufficient to Now, his master, as was customary for break the back of a…

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