Wodehouse Again

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 10 (Supplement)

Wodehouse Again

JV/JR- P. G. WODEHOUSE, when AVI criticised for writing a book where the same old characters were depicted under different names, once retorted by writing another where all the same old characters reappeared under the same old names. No one ever minds meeting a Wodcliouse character again, and friends of Bertie Wooster and his admirable butler Jeeves will rejoice at their reappearance in "The Code of The Woostcrs" (Herbert Jenkins). When Bertie's Aunt Dahlia commissions her not over-bright nephew to steal the prize piece of Sir Watkyn Bassett's collection of china, Bertie's troubles begin, and it is not long, as may be expected, before he has involved himself in a tangle in which every possible line of action seems more unfortunate than the others. When things lire at their darkest, however, Jeeves again proves himself a super-man and finds a way out. Headers the world over will laugh themselves hoarse over the adventures of Augustus Fink-Mottle, Madeleine Bassctt and her father, Stephanie (StifTy) Byng and the Rev. H. I'. (Stinker) Pinker, as Bertie and Jeeves alternatively help and hinder them in their curiously-confused adventures at the house party at Totleigh Towers. .