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.

John Greenleaf Whittier

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

John Greenleaf Whittier

ITTLE rills make wider streamlets, Streamlets swell the rivers' flow; Rivers join the mountain billows, Onward, onward, as they go !

John Greenleaf Whittier (Singular Use for Teeth)

R. LITTLE, in his book on Madagascar, tells an amusing story of a friend, who, on a journey from the coast to the interior, was much…

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