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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The Spartan Aristodemus Charged with Cowardice

(383) which make the heart beat quicker and the blood run faster, but in the whole range of history there is hardly anything to surpass the story of Thermopylæ. A Ballad from English History.

THE SPARTAN ARISTODEMUS CHARGED WITH COWARDICE.
THE SPARTAN ARISTODEMUS CHARGED WITH COWARDICE.

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