Wodehouse fans (and who in their right mind is not a fan of the greatest English prose-stylist of the 20th century?) will be au fait with the Jeeves and Wooster stories in this slim volume, but the Reggie Pepper stuff is less well-known. Pepper is an embryonic Wooster: loaded, foolish, an idler. What happens to him is more a matter of fate and farce than is the case with Bertie, where Jeeves so often acts as deux ex machina to resolve impossible situations. It is also fascinating to find some of the names encountered through Wodehouse's later volumes in the Pepper stories: Pilbeam (here in the form of a maid); Voules; and Florence Craye. A delightful read, the stories short and sweet, it is a lollipop of a book.