Oliver Herford

Oliver Herford (1863 - 1935) was a British born American writer, artist and illustrator who has been called "The American Oscar Wilde". As a frequent contributor to The Mentor, Life, and Ladies' Home Journal, he sometimes signed his artwork as "O Herford". In 1906 he wrote and illustrated the "Little Book of Bores". He also wrote short poems like "The Chimpanzee" and "The Hen", as well as writing and illustrating "The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten" (1904), "Cynic's Calendar" (1917) and "Excuse It Please" (1930). His sister Beatrice Herford was also a humorist.

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• A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: she changes it more often.
• If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one; go ahead, get married.
• Many are called but few get up.
• Only the young die good.
• Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
• What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg into an electric fan.

[edit] Books by Oliver Herford

With pictures by the author, published by Charles Scribner's Sons:^[1]

• The Bashful Earthquake
• A Child’s Primer of Natural History
• Overheard in a Garden
• More Animals
• The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten
• The Fairy Godmother-in-law
• A Little Book of Bores
• The Peter Pan Alphabet
• The Astonishing Tale of a Pen-And-Ink Puppet
• A Kitten’s Garden of Verses

With John Cecil Clay:

• Cupid’s Cyclopedia
• Cupid’s Fair-Weather Booke

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[edit] External links

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Oliver Herford

• Biography and selected works, Americanartarchives.com
• Archive of poems
• Collected quotations
• Herford, Worldofquotes.com
• "The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten" - The whole book, with art.
• Works by Oliver Herford at Project Gutenberg

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