Nineteen early short stories, some fairly good, some fairly bad. Most of them were written in America for the American pulps. Archibald's Benefit is Wodehouse's first golf story. The Good Angel is the first story with a strong butler part (and some very ill-informed comings and goings of a shooting party at an English country house). Rollo and Wilson in Ahead of Schedule are a foretaste of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. Sally, who, in Something to Worry About, feuds with a policeman and asks her fiancé to pull the man's helmet down over his eyes, is a foretaste of Stiffy Byng in The Code of the Woosters. In Alcala has strands of autobiography in it; its sentimentality is remarkably gooey, but is there, anywhere else in Wodehouse, a heroine who admits to having been a man's mistress?

Source: Richard Usborne. Plum Sauce. A P G Wodehouse Companion.