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.

Eliza Cook

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Eliza Cook (NE day as I was in the bath)

NE day, as I was in the bath, a friend, of mine put into my hand a piece of scented clay. I took it, and said to it. "Art thou musk or…

Eliza Cook (Early Dawn of Education)

OTHER! watch the little hand Picking berries by the way; Making houses in the sand; Tossing up the fragrant hay.

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