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.

Poetry and Prose

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Poetry and Prose

I Remember, I Remember, • :

Poetry and Prose (II)

HERE did you come from, baby dear?

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