1 OCTOBER 1927, Page 27

MEET MR. MULLINER. By P. G. Wodehouse. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s.

6d.)—Only the most rigid high-brows will refuse to unbend under the solicitation -of - these engaging and

preposterous narratives. Those who are suffering from mental fatigue and depression should certainly meet Mr. Mulliner, and listen at ease when with succinct style, with grave and sympathetic manner, he relates the amazing yet seemingly inevitable accidents that befell his surprising relatives. There is a considerable artist in Mr. Mulliner : his polite exactitudes and careful understatements, and his noble fluencies on the conduct of life, greatly heighten the absurdity of the cunningly evolved situations. The humour in this particular work of Mr. Wodehouse is not at all recondite ; but it will make you laugh—if you be human.