“ In the field of professional English studies Herford's influence counted greatly in the formation of a liberal tradition. He was remarkable in that, on leaving Cambridge, he continued to work for some years in Germany, where English studies were already well established in the academic tradition, but he came back untainted by the Teutonic heresy that English studies mean primarily Old English and pure philology. Always he maintained the superiority of mind over fact, of literature over language, as elements of a vital curriculum. ”

“ By preference he gave himself to the study of Shakespeare and the Wordsworth circle, Lucretius and Dante, Goethe and Browning, and it was on his work on these that his reputation in both Europe and America was based. But his books generally were the fruit of research as conscientious, extensive, and solid as the strictest academic discipline in scholarship could exact. ”

“ He delivered the Warton lecture to the British Academy, and was Percy Turnbull lecturer at John Hopkins University in 1900. In addition, he frequently examined for the Civil Service Commissioners, and also for the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London. He received honorary degrees from Cambridge, Manchester, and Wales. Mrs. Herford, who was a daughter of the late Herman Betge, chief postmaster of Bremen, died last December. ”