Charteris' Notebook

In P. G. Wodehouse's story "The Reverend Wooing of Archibald," first published in Strand in August 1928 and collected in Mr. ...

Corney Grain (1844-1895), a succcessful British entertainer and songwriter of the Victorian era, has suffered the fate that is to be expect...

The plot of P. G. Wodehouse's story "Doing Father a Bit of Good" ( Strand Magazine , June 1920, later collected as chapters X-...

The different versions of the text of P. G. Wodehouse's novel The Small Bachelor present an interesting variation in the choice of pron...

Chapter 8 of The White Feather (first published in The Captain , November 1905) opens thus: What a go is life! Let us examine the case of J...

The Phrase Finder observes that the popular theory that the cat in this expression is not actually a mammal of the Felidae family but the m...