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.

E. O. Haven

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

E. O. Haven (W Great Things in Small Things)

W Great Things in Small Things.

E. O. Haven (Examples of Beneficence)

HE clergy of Amida, at the instigation of the Bishop, sold all the gold and silver vessels of their churches in order to supply the wants…

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