Carolyn Wells has collaborated with Oliver Herford in the production of A Phenomenal Fauna, she being responsible for the rhymes, Herford for the pictures. Here one can learn all about the Bumble Puppy, which has a heart nose, and diamond eyes and tongue, and clubs and spade ace ears, and about the Jail Bird, Forebears and the Irish Bull, who all his hearers will with his laughter choke. Except his brother John, who sees no joke. Then there is the Bugbear, and the Travelling Crane, the Welsh Rabbit, and the Golden Buck, a game that’s often poached, which is found at many stag parties. No branching antlers this strange beast adorn, But with the Golden Buck we take a horn. There are also in this Phenomenal Fauna Royal Seals and Fire Dogs, Battering Rams and Cricket Bats, Time Flies, Round Robins, Brick Bats and Feather Boas—a whole collection of preposterous ingenuity to which both rhymer and artist have devoted their talents ‘con amore.’
