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.

Luella Clark

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Luella Clark (Battle of Life)

O forth to the battle of life, my boy, Go while it is called to-day; For the years go out, and the years come in, Regardless of those who…

Luella Clark

HE fisherman's toil begins in the evening, just when the sun is descending the western slopes.

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