Restoring the Lost Sense

Hermits will understand this piece.  From Dr. Paull's Theory by Alice Mangold Diehl, 1893.  The caption reads, "There was a knock at the door."

From The Choice Works of Thomas Hood, 1881.

She saw England, she saw France, and if the old playground rhyme is any indication, she saw ladies' underpants.

"Seize that -- THING!"  From The Man in Red or The Ghost of the Old Guard, 1890.

"A voice, in tones of thunder, cried, 'Silence!' and simultaneously both ladies fainted."  From The Great Peril and How It Was Averted, by William Laird Clowes, 1893.

"A ghostly warning," from Olden Wednesbury: Its Whims and Ways by Frederick William Hackwood, 1899.

"Come now, and fire the first shot in the warfare of the future," from The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror by George Chetwynd Griffith Jones and illustrated by F. T. Janes, 1893.

Here's the sphinx, drawn from memory (apparently).  From Histoire de l'art chez les anciens, 1789.

An illustration from The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford (1899).

Those playing along at home will have already guessed that we added the clock hands as the gentleman's tie.  Otherwise, this is from St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.

"The spectre on the line," from The Biography of a Locomotive Engine by Henry Frith and illustrated by P. Hardy, 1891.

The top of the great dome, from The Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum, 1911

From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, edited by John & Angus Macpherson, 1883.

Here is revealed one of the secrets of parrot thought transference, via Smithsonian Libraries (who left the source blank.  We guess with a name like Smithsonian, they are the source).  See Secrets of Chicken Whispering.

A frog serenades the moon, but why presume the moon is interested?  By the way, did you know that the phrase "the man in the moon is a bachelor" delivers but a single Google result?  Our illustration appears in St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.

Here's the whistling oyster and The Whistling Oyster.  (From Punch magazine 1843, and Old and New London by Walter Thornbury, 1873).

How the weathervanes of haunted houses get mangled, from The Letters of Charles Dickens, 1893.

"Death and the compadre," from The Wild Man at Home by James Greenwood, 1879.

"He fetched a dummy figure of Viola, and tossed it into the knife-lined globe, addressing it: 'There, my fair Viola, I shall bind you, of course!'"  From Thrilling Life Stories for the Masses, 1892.