Policemen can be found in vast numbers in the coffee shops around New Scotland Yard. (I strongly urge every American tourist to try it. Not only that, but should we ever decide to sneak up behind a policeman and pinch his helmet, we now know that a 'forward shove' is imperative in order to free the strap from under the chin. It happens to belong to the magistrate who recently fined Bertie for 'trying to separate a policeman from his helmet.' By the time we dismount, the world seems a far friendlier place. We hold on, hair flying, desperate to know who finally does get their hands on the silver cow creamer that Wooster's Aunt Dahlia has asked him to steal.

WOOSTER City Council is considering two pieces of legislation. One character eats soup 'not unlike the Scottish express going through a tunnel.' While some farces tire, this comedy of errors canters. Tim Monea, the citys chief building official, explains the maintenance code modifications. Published in 1938, 'The Code of the Woosters' is the third novel featuring the duo, and the pages yodel with Wodehouse's trademark wit.

Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already. Appearing in 35 of Wodehouse's short stories and 11 of his novels, Jeeves has achieved celebrity through his unfailing ability to devise a cunning plan to get Bertie Wooster, his master and intellectual inferior, out of a jam. 'Bertie and Jeeves are at their best in The Code of the Woosters.' 'You should read Wodehouse when youre well, and when youre poorly when youre travelling, and when youre not when youre feeling clever, and when youre feeling utterly dim. If, 98 years after he first appeared, the distinction is lost on many, the character certainly isn't. 1 While Jeeves may have become a byword for a butler, he is, of course, a valet.

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