MR. MULLINER SPEAKING P. G. WodehouseDoubleday, 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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