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.
2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.
As if they tolled for perished clocks the time that might have been !
Take heritage, take name, take all, But leave him free from Russian thrall!