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.

The Student of History

3 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

The Student of History

An armed mob of at least 100,000 men, aided by troops who joined them in whole The judicial murder of Louis XVI was regiments at a time…

The Student of History: Louis

The Register of Ramsay, in Huntingdonshire, mentions four hundred people mers immediately began by their noise to Louis XV, and under the…

The Student of History: Thermopylæ

Story of Thermopylæ, Thermopylæ was a défilé between Thessaly and Locris, in ancient times the only The engraving represents Aristodemus…

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