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.

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Poetry and Prose

I Remember, I Remember, • :

That Baby, . • Baby's Shoes, .

Poetry and Prose — from Museum of Wonders (1900)

Baby's Bedtime, • What does Little Birdie Say?

Rain on the Roof, A Revolutionary Anecdote, Miss Laugh and Miss Fret, Better Whistle than Whine,.

A Mercantile Transaction, Little Foes, • Slumber Song; つ Life, Etc., The Wonderful Weaver, A Good Name, • • • G C PAGE 262 C 265 267 269 ( • 271 273 275 277 • 279 283 285 285 287 • 289 291 293 298 300 • 308 309 • 335 345 378 412 412 414 414 414 • 414 415 415 416 • 416 416 416 e A Strange Sleeping-place, Teaching Public School, Happy Days of Childhood, The Boy to the Schoolmaster, • Early Promise, Help One Another, Careless People, • Dissatisfaction of Rich and Poor, Angels of the House, • 0 Fruit of Diligence, Reward of Difficulties, • • The Poor Man to His Son, Good Company, Filial Affection, Sports of Childhood, Beginning of Life, Home-Beauty, At the King's Gate, Keys, Maidenhood, • Great Effects of Small Things, Great Things in Small Things,.

Way of Success, • Power of Character, Examples of Beneficence, Love's First Dream, Early Dawn of Education, • 。 Dare and Do, • Tenacity of Life in the Wolf, • Poor Little Joe, • Ary Scheffer, The Best that I Can, • Principle put to the Test, • The Little Sunbeam, The Barefoot Boy, • 0 Learn a Little Every Day, By and By, • • The Golden Stair, 。 "I Would if I Could," Do Your Duty, • • The Battle of Life, Wanted-A Boy, The Pet Lamb, Better a Word than a Blow, The Ship and the Iceberg, The Miller's Daughter, CONTENTS.

PAGE. 。 • 421 422 • 422 422 424 424 • 424 426 426 426 427 427 • 428 428 429 430 430 430 432 432 433 433 434 434 434 434 436 436 437 437 • 438 • 438 440 442 442 • 442 • 442 444 444 444 446 The Sculptor Bcy, My Bird's Nest, North Sea Fishers, Thankfulness and Murmuring, Day of Thanksgiving, The Goat and the Swing, Annabel Lee, Little Brown Hands, Contentment Rewarded, Be Kind,..

Sweet Laura May, Mind Your Stops, The Drummer-boy's Burial, A Wish, The Brave Little Maid, The Pumpkin, • Singular Use for Teeth, • The Death of Watt Tyler, The Whistle, The Red Strings, A Visit from Santa Claus, The Smack in School, • The Puppy's Education, The Ventriloquist, 。 CONTENTS.

The Pebble and the Acorn, Thrilling Adventure of a Little Boy, The Low-backed Car, Trial of Anne Hutchinson, Canine Sagacity, Little Nell's Funeral, Aunt Tabitha, The Irishwoman's Lament, Spring Blossoms, A Sociable, Buying Gape-seed, • The Bird with a Broken Wing, An Unaccountable Knock, The Engineer's Story, • • Plucking Wild Flowers, Moral Decision, The Romance of the Swan's Nest, An Affectionate Goose, .

The Earthquake in South America, The Mother's Sacrifice, The Legend of Grafensprung, Independence Bell-July 4, 1776, • • PAGE. 450 45 I 451 451 452 452 452 454 454 • 454 455 458 458 458 458 0 459 459 • 460 460 460 • 461 • 462 463 • 463 464 464 465 465 466 466 468 0 468 468 • 470 470 470 471 472 • 472 C 473 。 CONTENTS.

The Drummer-Boy, The Compassionate Raven; or, Sympathy for Suffering, A Ghost Imposture Exposed, Endurance, ..

The Factory Girl's Last Day, Beautiful Flowers, Learn to Sweep, Rhymes for Hard Times, The Drunkard's Daughter, The Song of Steam, Duty, True Rest, Looking into the Future, • • Labor Song, • Hart-Leap Well,.

A Love-Letter from Dakota, Mr. Stiver's Horse, Look Aloft, The Bald-Pated Welshman and the Fly, • The Knight and the Lady, • • Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Somebody's Mother, • The Wreck of the “ Hesperus," A Child's Dream of a Star, Shacob's Lament, A Receipt for Courtship, Story of Birds, The Burning of Chicago, The Polish Boy, To a Gardener, The Bells of Shandon, Landing of Governor Winthrop at Salem, Old Grimes is Dead, The Lost Camel, George Nidiver, The Storm, 0 • A Christian Heroine, Is it Anybody's Business?

Very Deaf, A Love-Gift, 。 Courtship and Marriage Amongst Swedish Peasants, On the Bridge where the Rivers Meet, The Humming-Bird, A Reflection, Courage in Duty, Little Bell, 。 PAGE. 477 479 479 480 48c . 482 482 482 483 483 484 484 484 • 486 487 489 489 490 492 494 495 496 497 497 498 • 498 499 501 502 503 503 504 504 • 505 505 506 506 507 508 • 509

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