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Author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, in his way, is a master of musical-comedy dialog, especially in the dialect of the stage Englishman of very high or low degree. Mr. Mulliner Speaking is a collection of his sprightly tales: the narrator in each case is the affably reminiscent Mr. Mulliner, who holds forth to his jaw-dropped cronies in the bar of the Angler's Rest. In every case the hero, or the goat, is some pinheaded nephew or vague cousin of Mr. Mulliner's: the vicissitudes related are as improbable and as fetching as the language they...
...have sought to impart a like reality to their heroine. She lives in a sedate, tapestried mansion in Manhattan's Washington Square, has a dignified father, a smart dress shop on Madison Avenue, a generous and platonic gentleman friend named Larry Brennan. Her suitor is a rich and personable Englishman. Her lover is a Latin cabaret dancer. She goes to his rooms in the night, succumbs for the last time to his tender voice and hands, and in the early dawn, when he is less persuasive, poisons him with strychnine filched from her father's medicine chest...
...translated: 'The statement just made by my honorable colleague does not quite coincide with the facts as I know them.' But the Englishman understood French a little and he interrupted, 'Tell them I said it was a damn...
...there's "Saki". Anyone who hasn't read "Saki" (the pen-name of H. H. Munro, an Englishman killed in the War) should, and anyone who has read him will do so again without any blurbs from the Vagabond. "Saki" is the entrepreneur between Englishmen and morals and a delighted audience. He is the epitome of sophisticated wit, a judicious mixture of cynicism and sentiment, and charming withal. His good-natured satire falls as lightly on milord and lady as on the foibles of the charwoman next door...
...operate, instead gave Fürlein an electric shock which cured him. When he came apologetically to say goodbye to the Whistlers, their congratulations were forced; they never afterward spoke of him. The Bavarian died, very slowly. The Prussian died quickly, during an operation. The Westphalian boy and the Englishman were healed; by the time the Englishman was exchanged they did not want to leave each other...