Books: What Ho!

MR. MULLINER SPEAKING— P. G. Wodehouse—Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

" 'Here you are, sir,' he said. 'Here's your rat. A little the worse for wear, this sat is, I'm afraid, sir. A gentleman happened to step on it. You can't step on a nat,' he said, sententiously, 'not without hurting it. That tat is not the yat it was.' "

Author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, in his way, is a master of musical-comedy dialog, especially in the dialect of the stage Englishman of very high or low degree. Mr. Mulliner Speaking is a collection of his sprightly...

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