Restoring the Lost Sense

From the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.

From St. Nicholas, 1913.

From Lighted Pathway, 1971. 

From King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert and illustrated by Walter Crane, 1911.

"Resentment grew in Roberta's heart. 'No one has any right to be that beautiful. And she's too good to be earthly. All that money is disgusting.'"  From Lighted Pathway, 1960.

From St. Nicholas, 1913.

"An immense white castle enclosed by a great white wall."  From The House of the Red Fox by Miriam Byrne and illustrated by Anna Milo Upjohn, 1907.

From Skyward and Back Again by Lucy Robinson, 1895.

There's nothing like elfin lemonade.  From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).

From Chatterbox, 1903.  

From Purple Parrot, 1929.

From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.

From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 1906.

From Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers (Yeh Sen Noh Wehs) and illustrated by W. Fletcher White, 1917.

From Purple Parrot, 1922.

From our review of Strange Maine, illustrated by Peter Farrow.  We love this sort of anthology that seems hell-bent to convince readers that the locality in question is plagued by vampires, werewolves, ghost ships, sea serpents, aliens, flying carpets, and other haunting anomalies.  Every region should have one!  

Today's sea wolves feasting on ambergris is from Harper's, 1879.

Cockatoo versus snake: which would you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1879.

"Ancient imperial Japanese bed.  A rare example of teak carving.  Belonging to the royal family."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.