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Neither Here nor There

Oliver Herford, and American humorist, writer, and illustrator here gives us short vignettes from topics as seemingly insignificant things as the creases in trouser, several pieces on cats, and societal mores and foibles. Each piece is filled with humorous barbs and insights into the human condition. - Summary by Larry Wilson (2 hr 37 min)

Chapters

The Secret

Our Leisure Class

Concerning Revolving Doors

Bolshevism for Babies

The Tutti-Frutti Tree

Those Bill Boards

The Lure of the “Ad”

Look Before She Leaps

The Low Cost of Cabbing

The Great Match Box Mystery

Are Cats People?

Mlle. Fauteuil

Money and Fireflies

Concerning the Trouser-Crease

An Old-Fashioned Heaven

Another Lost Art

Mr. Chesterton and the Soliloquy

Bunk

The Cost of a Pyramid

Waltzing Mice and Dancing Men

The Hobgoblin

The Voice of the Pussy-Willow

Pernicious Peaches

Second Childhood’s Happy Hour

Pity the Poor Guest of Honour

A New Monroe Doctrine

Do Cats Come Back?

The Ruthlessness of Mr. Cobb

My Lake

The Hundredth Amendment

Say It with Asterisks