Pictures, text and page images from “The Entirely New Cynic’s Calendar of Revised Wisdom, 1905” by Ethel Watts Mumford, Oliver Herford and Addison Miznerr. I bought my copy of this little book in Olivia’s Books in Picton, Ontario. It is out of copyright.
![[picture: Frontispiece: Jester and Monk]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/tn/000-3-Frontispiece-q98-347x500.jpg "[picture: Frontispiece: Jester and Monk]")
A woman in a red jester’s outfit, including a jester’s hat with bells, and a black-robed monk wearing sandals, and with a black hood, hold hands as if preparing to dance. [more...]
![[picture: Imprint Page]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/tn/000-5-Imprint-q95-356x500.jpg "[picture: Imprint Page]")
The imprint page shows the printing and copyright information; it also has a coloured design that I have made into a separate image, Fox and Goose. [more...]
![[picture: Fox and Goose Decoateive Element]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/tn/000-5-Imprint-detail-fox-and-goose-q85-500x500.jpg "[picture: Fox and Goose Decoateive Element]")
Fox and Goose Decoateive Element
A decorative motif, or page element, from the imprint page, shpwing a fox and a goose (or a duck maybe) reading a book.
![[picture: 1.---January Week 1]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/tn/001-January-q75-372x500.jpg "[picture: 1.---January Week 1]")
Tell the truth and
shame the—family. [more...]
![[picture: Page detail: Art Neuveau border]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/tn/001-January-detail-Border-q75-246x500.jpg "[picture: Page detail: Art Neuveau border]")
Page detail: Art Neuveau border
A detail from the January Week 1 page showing the decorative border, which repeats on every fourth page throughout most of the book. A cat stands on a skull. [more...]
![[picture: Page detail: Art Neuveau Cartouche]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/tn/001-January-detail-Cartouche-q75-500x146.jpg "[picture: Page detail: Art Neuveau Cartouche]"){kind=small}
Page detail: Art Neuveau Cartouche
The encyclopedia of the book says that a cartouche is [more...]
![[picture: The Well of Knowledge]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/tn/011-Knowledge-Her-Welle-q93-500x477.jpg "[picture: The Well of Knowledge]")
The jester leads the donkey (or mule) to the well of knowedge (written, quaintly, “Knowledge. HerWelle”) but, stubbronly, the mule refuses to drink. The mule is [...] [more...]
![[picture: Trouble]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/tn/039-trouble-q95-412x500.jpg "[picture: Trouble]")
![[picture: Snake and Owl Border.]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/tn/050-Memoranda-q90-500x313.jpg "[picture: Snake and Owl Border.]")
This border in red, featuring a snake and an owl with an outstretched wing, was around the word “Memorandum” but it could equally well do for an owl-deliverd Slytherin message in a Harry Potter film! [more...]
![[picture: The First Monday]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/MHM-Cynics1905/tn/051-The-First-Monday-q90-500x496.jpg "[picture: The First Monday]")
“The First Monday” [more...]
