Ten short stories, five of them about golf, told by the Oldest Member. But in three of them the O.M., the club and the course are American. Rodney Has a Relapse pulls A. A. Milne's nose again. Birth of a Salesman has Lord Emsworth temporarily in America and jealous of his son Freddie's success as a mini-magnate in the dog-biscuit business. How's that, Umpire? is the story of the salvation of Conky Biddle, obliged to go to cricket matches (which he loathes) with his uncle Lord Plumpton, who provides his allowance and is dotty about the game. A beautiful American girl with a millionaire father rescues Conky from unemployment and cricket. Two stories are about Bingo Little, and one of them brings back, to be nanny to young Algernon Aubrey, the nanny who had nannied Bingo in infancy: a resurrection that Bingo would not recommend now, to any pater-familias. The other Bingo story brings the disruptive Freddie Widgeon into the Little family's lives. Success Story is Ukridge at his best, outlying and outsmarting his aunt's crooked butler Oakshott. But Corky still has to pay the bill for the lordly celebratory lunch.

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