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.
2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.
ET me say to every one that is beginning life:
The Angel's Wing. "Peace to the dead!" no children sung, Slow pacing up the nave; No prayers were read, no knell was rung, As deep we dug…