Abstract

Good Old Humor

The article focuses on the books "Nothing But Wodehouse," edited by Ogden Nash and "Hot Water," by P. G. Wodehouse. In the present "Nothing but Wodehouse," volume one can read "the contents of three books, a novel complete, over 1,000 pages, 24 stories," as the cover promises, they will froth at the mouth in a delirium of laughter. In "Hot Water," one gets Mr. Wodehouse writing about Americans and, particularly, attempting to depict life among the gangsters, the result is pretty hard to bear. Safeblowers and confidence men, meeting in southern France, do, of course, have to keep their hands in, and abstracting the "ice"--which Mr. Wodehouse believes is gansterese for jewels--from a ponderous American lady from California is a job, if not a large one.