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.

Robert Story

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Robert Story

IN N connection with a betrothal in China important ceremonies are performed with two threads of scarlet silk and four long needles. When a…

Robert Story: Nicholas

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So up to the house-top the coursers…

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