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.

William Somerville

3 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

William Somerville

で The Knight and the Lady.

William Somerville: Thomas

Nay more; don't suppose With such doings as those This account of her merits must come to a close; No!-examine her conduct more closely…

William Somerville: MacBride

Close by her side, Sat her kinsman, MacBride- Captain Dugald MacBride, Royal Scots Fusiliers ;- And I doubt if you'd find, in the whole of…

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