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 Wordsworth

3 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

William Wordsworth

POUND of jumps!" and I looked in sur prise At little black Rose with her shining eyes. "A pound of jumps!-my mother said A pound of jumps,"…

William Wordsworth (Love-letter from Dakota)

WEET Jinny, I write on me knee, Wid the shtump of a limitid pincil; I would write on my disk, but you see I'm widout that convainient…

William Wordsworth (II)

OME ye into the summer woods; There entereth no annoy; All greenly wave the chestnut leaves, And the earth is full of joy.

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