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.

Making the Guy

4 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Making the Guy

(387) Brought before the king and council he when the chilling hand of death set its boldly avowed his purpose, but not even impress upon…

Making the Guy: Nithisdale

The Earl of Nithisdale's Escape from London Tower.

Making the Guy: Columbus

With that self-reliance so peculiar to her, she resolved on a step which seemed The Death-Bed of Columbus.

Making the Guy: Palace

I continued to press him to make all the despatch he possibly could. At the bot- Holyrood Palace is a deeply interesting tom of the stairs…

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