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.

Coals of Fire

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Coals of Fire

UY MORGAN came in done to prove your love for me just with rapid step and an now?" impetuous manner. His mother looked up from her work…

Coals of Fire: Osgood

But he came home that night depresseć and a little gloomy. There had always They made dinner last as long as they been a sort of rivalry…

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