From Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville, 1897.

From Following the Equator by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1897.

An illustration from A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan by Mary Crawford Fraser (1899).  The caption reads: "The rabbit and the monkey who live in the moon."

Before the discovery of continental drift, geologists elegantly explained transoceanic similarities of life by crediting giant monkeys.  Our illustration is from The Star of the Sea: A Historical Novel by N. Gregor, 1897.

An illustration from an 1894 issue of Pall Mall magazine.  The caption reads: "My library did not seem to afford him the kind of reading matter he craved."

An illustration from an 1887 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "The Chinese must go."