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.

W. W. Fink

3 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

W. W. Fink

HE other morning at breakfast, Mrs. Perkins observed that Mr. Stiver, in whose house we live, had been called away, and wanted to know if I…

W. W. Fink: Stiver

After breakfast I seized a toothpick and walked out toward the stable. There was nothing particular to do, as Stiver had given him his…

W. W. Fink: Perkins

When I got out I found Mrs. Perkins at the door.

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