CONTENTS.
Albany Poyntz
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CHAPTER I.
LONGEVITY OF ANIMALS
1-10
CHAPTER II.
INCOMBUSTIBLE MEN
11-22
CHAPTER III.
VENTRILOQUISTS
23-31
CHAPTER IV.
POPE JOAN AND THE WANDERING JEW
32-36
CHAPTER V.
THE FABLES OF HISTORY
37-45
CHAPTER VI.
MELONS AND MONSTERS
46-53
CHAPTER VII.
THE JEWS
54-60
CHAPTER VIII.
VERBAL DELICACY
61-64
CHAPTER IX.
AEROLITES AND MIRACULOUS SHOWERS
65-74
CHAPTER X.
NOSTRUMS AND SPECIFICS
75-82
CHAPTER XI.
PHYSIOGNOMISTS
83-95
CHAPTER XII.
LAST WORDS OF DYING PERSONS
96-98
CHAPTER XIII.
THE ANTIPODES—MORNING AND EVENING DEW
99-102
CHAPTER XIV.
PERPETUAL LAMPS AND ARCHIMEDES
103-109
CHAPTER XV.
THE LYNX AND THE CAMELEON
110-115
CHAPTER XVI.
WILD WOMEN
116-118
CHAPTER XVII.
SYBILS
119-123
CHAPTER XVIII.
FORTUNE-TELLERS AND CHIROMACY
124-130
CHAPTER XIX.
ALBERTUS MAGNUS AND NOSTRADAMUS
131-137
CHAPTER XX.
LEECHES, SERPENTS, AND THE SONG OF THE DYING SWAN
138-146
CHAPTER XXI.
NEGROES
147-160
CHAPTER XXII.
FASCINATION; OR, THE ART OF PLEASING
161-1
A WORLD OF WONDERS.
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