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.

Thomas Westwood

6 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Thomas Westwood

T was the thirty-first of October and a wild blustering night, too. "A regular witches' night," Hal Merritt exultingly remarked, peering…

Thomas Westwood: Sally

The children were thus left to furnish their own amusement. They shouted and sung, they danced while Hal played for them on his…

Thomas Westwood: Just

Just then there came a tremendous rap at the door, which made them all jump and gaze anxiously at one another. The front door was an…

Thomas Westwood: Graybeard

When the piece was finished he stopped short, and, Graybeard was obliging enough after his second despite the encores of the children, he…

Thomas Westwood: Julia

ULIA was lovely and winning- And Julia had lovers in plenty, They outnumbered her years More than twice, it appears- She killed fifty…

Thomas Westwood: Harry

But Death would not take what fair Julia refused; And, in fact, Harry thought himself very ill used Your absence too long-for we dine…

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