Charteris' Notebook

 A Gentleman of Leisure  (variorum edition, PDF) This is the third project of its kind I've completed. It is out of schedule: the next o...

Wodehouse's "forgotten sports" gag spans 46 years: Forgotten Sports of the Past—Splitting the Straw. ( The Little Warrior ch....

In chapter II of his more or less autobiographical book Over Seventy (1957) Wodehouse comments on the financial vicissitudes of his househo...

There is a curious symmetry between the first and last chapters of Wodehouse's A Gentleman of Leisure ( The Intrusion of Jimmy in the ...

Wodehouse's brief comment  on the Broadway production of Leo Tolstoy's lugubrious play  The Power of Darkness , between January and ...

The Small Bachelor  (variorum edition, PDF) This is the second project of its kind that I've completed. The presentation to  Leave It to...

There is this funny word cachinnogenic that Wodehouse used in America, I Like You p. 161: [...] it used to be obligatory to laugh whenever...