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.

James T. Fields

5 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

James T. Fields

T Jane McCrea. expected reward, and even came to violence and blows. In the midst of it, a chief coolly drew a pistol and fired at Miss…

James T. Fields: Canada

Her brother soon hastened to the spot, and bore her remains to a quiet resting-place on the river side. the old battle-ground between New…

James T. Fields: Gustavus

The first piece opened by the sudden entrance of an officer in the costume of the Ming dynasty, followed by two attendants. He began a long…

James T. Fields: Ankerstroem

After varying fortunes in the war, Gustavus concluded a peace on the fourteenth August, 1790, with his foreign enemies, but the nobility…

James T. Fields: Diogenes

The name of this fellow was Diogenes.

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