The Eighteen-Carat Kid and Other Stories

The Eighteen-Carat Kid and Other Stories, by P. G. Wodehouse, edited by David A. Jasen (Continuum, 164 pp., $10.95).

J. R. R. Tolkien once remarked to Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis’s literary executor, that, thanks to Hooper, Lewis was likely to wind up in the rare situation of a writer who has had more books published after his death than before it. While it would take a substantial bit of publishing to put P. G. Wodehouse in the same case—his pre-posthumous publications having exceeded one hundred—David Jasen and Continuum (a Seabury Press offshoot which, I understand, was started chiefly to publish Wodehousiana) are doing their best. There are no Jeeves and Bertie stories in this series of previously uncollected early Wodehouse, for they have not been born yet, and nothing of Psmith, Lord Emsworth, or Uncle Fred. But this latest in the series includes one top-drawer

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The Eighteen-Carat Kid and Other Stories, by P. G. Wodehouse, edited by David A. Jasen (Continuum, 164 pp., $10.95).

J. R. R. Tolkien once remarked to Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis’s literary executor, that, thanks to Hooper, Lewis was likely to wind up in the rare situation of a writer who has had more books published after his death than before it. While it would take a substantial bit of publishing to put P. G. Wodehouse in the same case—his pre-posthumous publications having exceeded one hundred—David Jasen and Continuum (a Seabury Press offshoot which, I understand, was started chiefly to publish Wodehousiana) are doing their best. There are no Jeeves and Bertie stories in this series of previously uncollected early Wodehouse, for they have not been born yet, and nothing of Psmith, Lord Emsworth, or Uncle Fred. But this latest in the series includes one top-drawer