Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (Collector's Wodehouse)
This 1940 collection of nine mostly delightful stories opens  with four accounts of the misadventures of the wonderfully inept  Bingo Little. Married to best-selling novelist Rosie M. Banks,  Bingo strives awkwardly to find a job and then to get it back  when his stuffy boss Purkiss, not without justification, fires  him. Bingo, a close friend of Bertie Wooster in several Jeeves  tales, almost matches Wodehouse's greatest creation with his  genius for getting into and out of trouble. The best story,  however, is "Anselm Gets His Chance," in which one of the  Mulliners arranges for a supposed reformed burglar to steal a  stamp collection. It displays Wodehouse's patented twists and  turns of plot at their best. The remaining stories, one with  Freddie Fitch-Fitch and four with Stanley Ukridge, while  charming, are lesser works. Jonathan Cecil, equally adept at the  silly and the pompous, matches Alexander Spencer and Martin  Jarvis as a great Wodehouse interpreter. Highly  recommended. Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr.Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.