Confessions of a Caricaturist by Oliver Herford

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For Perfect Form there are but few / That can compare with Mr. Drew; / A Form most fittingly displayed / In rôles from London, tailor-made / By Messrs. Maughn, Pinero, Jones, / In quiet, gentlemanly tones. / The "Nouveaux-Riches" flock, day by day, / To learn from John how to display / (Without unnecessary gloom) / The manners of the drawing-room. / This possibly may be the cause / (Or one of them) why John Drew draws.

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