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.

Lady Dufferin

3 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Lady Dufferin

Escape of a Scottish Jacobite. r AJOR GALBRAITH, who fought for Charles Edward Stuart, gave a graphic account of his escape from the…

Lady Dufferin: Austrian

It is satisfactory to know that the Major ultimately reached France, and founded a family there. heavy splash, caused by the falling of the…

Lady Dufferin: Kitten

C The Kitten and Falling Leaves.

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