Restoring the Lost Sense

"The sense of death is most in apprehension," from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant, 1889.

From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folktales by Robert Nisbet Bain and illustrated by H. W. Mitchell, 1902.

From Absolutely True, written and illustrated by Irving Montagu, 1893.

This illustration seems to be saying that if we hurry on to Filthytown, we can beat the germs from Cleanville.  From Healthy Living by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, 1917.

What is a jester hiding beneath his comedy mask?  You guessed it.  From The Withered Jester by Arthur Patchett Martin, 1895.

From The Select Works of Bret Hartte in Prose and Poetry, 1872.

"A sort of animated door-mat," from Wanderings of a War Artist, written and illustrated by Irving Montagu, 1889.

From Journeys through Bookland by Charles Herbert Sylvester, 1922.

Ah, the good days when science articles depicted Old Man Winter as Janus-faced and holding a scepter and key … when scientists didn't presume that everything can be stated in a canonical language utterly devoid of metaphor.  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1910.

Here's the snake with the gold, in From Whose Bourne by Robert Barr, 1893.

From The Punishment of the Stingy and Other Indian Stories, 1901.

"The sun is in the sky; 'tis time for us to fly."  From The Brownies at Home by Palmer Cox, 1893.  This should also be of interest: How to Believe in Your Elf.

"Be steadfast unto the end," from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant, 1889.

From Humorous Poems by Thomas Hood and illustrated by C. E. Brock, 1893.