Neither Here Nor There

by Oliver Herford

A MIRROR OF FRIVOLITY

NEITHER HERE
NOR THERE

By
OLIVER HERFORD

Author of “The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten,” “This Giddy Globe,” etc.

¶ As a humorous commentator upon morals and manners with special attention to cats, tutti frutti trees, Bolshevism for babies and trouser creases. Mr. Herford leaves nothing to be desired. His book is a mirror of engaging frivolity, an incisive but good-humored thrust at the follies of the day. Here and there a very rich and moving note is struck, as in THE BON DIEU’S BIRTHDAY PARTY where one finds in full flower that tender fantasy which is the greatest charm of Mr. Herford’s imagination.

GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY Publishers New York

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NEITHER HERE NOR THERE

OLIVER HERFORD

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Other Books of OLIVER HERFORD

POEMS AND VERSES

• ARTFUL ANTICS
• THE BASHFUL EARTHQUAKE AND OTHER FABLES AND VERSES
• ALPHABET OF CELEBRITIES
• OVERHEARD IN A GARDEN
• RUBAIYAT OF A PERSIAN KITTEN
• THE FAIRY GOD-MOTHER-IN-LAW
• KITTEN’S GARDEN OF VERSES
• THE LAUGHING WILLOW
• THE HERFORD ÆSOP

ANIMAL BOOKS

• A CHILD’S PRIMER OF NATURAL HISTORY
• MORE ANIMALS
• JINGLE JUNGLES

SATIRICAL

• THE ASTONISHING TALE OF A PEN AND INK PUPPET
• SIMPLE GEOGRAPHY
• THE MYTHOLOGICAL ZOO
• CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST
• THIS GIDDY GLOBE

IN COLLABORATION

With John Cecil Clay

• HEARTICULTURE
• CUPID’S FAIR WEATHER BOOK
• CUPID’S ENCYCLOPEDIA
• HAPPY DAYS

With Cleveland Moffett

• THE BISHOP’S PURSE

With Ethel Watts Mumford

• CYNIC’S CALENDAR

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NEITHER HERE
NOR THERE

BY
OLIVER HERFORD

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

NEITHER HERE NOR THERE. I

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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TO M. H.

On board S.S. Carmania
Lat. 50° N., Long. 30° W.

“NEITHER HERE—NOR THERE”

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CONTENTS

	PAGE
The Secret	[9]
Our Leisure Class	[13]
Concerning Revolving Doors	[17]
Bolshevism for Babies	[21]
The Tutti-Frutti Tree	[25]
Those Bill Boards	[28]
The Lure of the “Ad”	[33]
Look Before She Leaps	[37]
The Low Cost of Cabbing	[42]
The Great Match Box Mystery	[45]
Are Cats People?	[51]
Mlle. Fauteuil	[56]
Money and Fireflies	[60]
Concerning the Trouser-Crease	[63]
An Old-Fashioned Heaven	[68]
Another Lost Art	[71]
Mr. Chesterton and the Soliloquy	[74]
Bunk	[77]
The Cost of a Pyramid	[82]
Waltzing Mice and Dancing Men	[87]
The Hobgoblin	[92]
The Voice of the Pussy-Willow	[96]
Pernicious Peaches	[99]
Second Childhood’s Happy Hour	[105]
Pity the Poor Guest of Honour	[109]
A New Monroe Doctrine	[114]
Do Cats Come Back?	[117]
The Ruthlessness of Mr. Cobb	[120]
My Lake	[123]
The Hundredth Amendment	[134]
Say It with Asterisks	[144]

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