Nine stories here. In the first, Jeeves and the Greasy Bird, Bertie, engaged again to Honoria Glossop, tries to get out of it by compromising himself with Trixie, actress niece of greasy Jas Waterbury. Jeeves and Aunt Dahlia perjure themselves to get Bertie out of that mess, and he and Jeeves are now off to Florida, where Jeeves hopes to catch tarpon. We must suppose that Honoria will now marry Blair Eggleston and be off her father's hands so as to let him marry Myrtle, Lady Chuffnell (as he seems to have done already, six years ago, in Jeeves in the Offing. You can't win trying to equate publishing dates with Wodehouse's calendar.). In Sleepy Time hypnotism produces strange golf scores. Sticky Wicket at Blandings isn't about cricket, but about Freddie Treepwood giving away his wife's beloved Alsatian dog to an attractive neighbouring girl. Ukridge Starts a Bank Account finds Ukridge (so does his aunt) selling Aunt Julia's antique furniture. Corky as usual pays for the lunch. There are two Bingo Little stories. In one he gets arrested for sitting in Trafalgar Square at a Ban-the-Bomb rally with a beautiful redhead who he had last met in a water-barrel. Her father, Lord Ippleton, is a good buzzer. George and Alfred is a Mulliner story about twin brothers and Jacob Schnellenhamer and his yacht at Monte Carlo. Only so-so. Life with Freddie is about the dog-biscuit salesman supreme again. And its length and course suggest that it might have been planned to go to a full novel. Ditto Stylish Stouts, which ends with a surprising clang. There is a fine drunk scene in 'Stylish Scouts' and the first paragraph of Sleepy Time is a gem even among what might be a slim anthology of Wodehouse's best opening paragraphs.

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