Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Globe By the Way Book by P.G. Wodehouse The Globe By the Way Book by P.G. Wodehouse. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 660745772d49176a • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. The Globe By the Way Book by P.G. Wodehouse. Madame Eulalie’s Rare Plums. Devoted to the early works of P. G. Wodehouse. The Globe (UK) The P. G. Wodehouse Globe Reclamation Project is discovering long-neglected items by Wodehouse from the Globe newspaper itself; the Project Menu on this site presents these discoveries as they are identified and transcribed. In June 1908, Wodehouse and Herbert Westbrook produced The Globe By The Way Book—A Literary Quick-Lunch for People Who Have Got Only Five Minutes to Spare, a compendium of illustrated humorous topical features designed as an impulse buy for the railway book trade. We present one of those features in full: Women, Wine and Song! is a playful, madcap pastiche of Victorian melodrama and the cliff-hanging adventure serials of P. G. Wodehouse’s youth. In addition, John Dawson’s article “Deconstructing The Globe By The Way Book ” provides further history of the book, excerpts, and annotations to many of its topical references. During Wodehouse’s work on the By the Way column, his contributions to the newspaper columns were unsigned, thus requiring the research efforts of the Globe Reclamation Project to uncover them. One signed article, “Abe,” from September 3, 1910, has just been found in newly available online scans of the paper; it gives his impressions of the New York literary agent to whom the manuscript of Love Among the Chickens was entrusted. The Globe, UK. Founded in 1803, the Globe was one London’s oldest evening papers. After a succession of owners over the years that eventually that saw the paper turn into a conservative organ, Sir George C. H. Armstrong took over in 1871 and edited the paper for some years. The jocular “By The Way” column started in 1881 and was conducted principally by E. Kay Robinson (?–1928) and then Charles Larcom Graves (1856–1944). After Armstrong’s death in 1907, the paper was sold to Hildebrand Harmsworth of the Harmsworth press dynasty. William Thomas Madge (1845–1927) became manager of the Globe in 1866 and served in that position through most of Wodehouse’s tenure. It was during his tenure that the pink newsprint since associated with the paper was started (1868). Completing the dramatis personæ at the Globe were Edward Harold Begbie (1871–1929) and William Beach Thomas (1868–1957). Begbie was an author/journalist who published nearly 50 books on a wide variety of topics including political satire, science fiction, plays, poetry, and children’s literature. He had joined the paper as Kay Robinson’s assistant editor on By The Way and assumed the editorship of the column when Robinson left. William Beach Thomas (1868–1957) was an educator and writer who had taught at Dulwich in 1897–98 and had been Wodehouse’s form master in the Upper Fourth in 1897. Having forsaken teaching for a career in writing, he began submitting contributions to Begbie, who hired him to become his assistant on the By The Way. Vis-à-vis his submissions to the Globe , Beach Thomas and Wodehouse were in touch—Wodehouse had written separately to him as well—and Beach Thomas was clearly impressed with what his former pupil had shown him. He agreed to keep him in mind on the occasional days a substitute was needed in the office to fill the column and suggested the possibility of a permanent job. ( John Dawson. ) The Globe By the Way Book by P.G. Wodehouse. The front covers feature a photograph of 21-year-old P. G. Wodehouse that was originally published in the September 1903 issue of The Captain. The photo has been restored and colorized by Laiz Kuczynski. The P. G. Wodehouse Globe Reclamation Project announces the publication of P. G. Wodehouse in the Globe Newspaper, 1901–1908, Volumes 1 and 2. The books are the first results of a three-year effort by an international group of Wodehouse scholars to obtain and study Wodehouse’s daily “By the Way” columns, found to have contained thousands of short paragraphs and verses attributable to him. Unseen for over 100 years and scanned from microfilm in London and Los Angeles, the columns not only shed new light on an important, formative period of his career, but also many display “the brilliant craftsmanship and wit for which P. G. Wodehouse has always been known,” according to GRP founding member John Dawson. In 2011, Sir Edward Cazalet, Wodehouse’s grandson, permitted the group to obtain a copy of Wodehouse’s 114-year-old journal, “Money Received for Literary Work,” which lists the days and weeks he worked at the Globe . “Because the column was written in the morning and published in the evening,” Dawson said, “Wodehouse’s journal allowed us to identify the exact 1,378 issues we were looking for. From there, our volunteers in three countries built the archive and began an intensive 3-year effort to study, discuss, and evaluate the columns.” Volume One, By the Way, Day by Day , contains some 1,300 humorous paragraphs and poems, jokes, puns, and witty Wodehousean retellings of the days’ news events. In his introduction, Dawson, who selected and edited the columns for publication, describes the complex issues involved in attributing Wodehouse’s unsigned, yet often recognizable writing. He examines the column’s daily structure and how he was able to identify Wodehouse’s likely work by identifying unique stylistic characteristics, markers, keywords, and other criteria. Neil Midkiff has compiled comprehensive and entertaining notes to the text, which identify the now obscure Edwardian personalities and events Wodehouse wrote about. The result is a “wonderful daily romp through the best of Wodehouse’s By the Way columns.” Volume Two, By the Way: 200 Verses , features a sparkling trove of poems attributed to Wodehouse by an international panel of authors and experts. Edited by Tony Ring, the world’s leading authority on Wodehouse’s lyrics and poetry, the hilarious poems showcase his genius with the verse form, evident even in his early years. Ring’s commentary and learned notes provide the Edwardian perspective and bring the verses to life once again. In a remarkable introduction, Ring describes the intricate protocol used by the GRP’s five-member Poetry Review Panel to attribute the unsigned poems. By the Way: 200 Verses represents, by far, the largest body of Wodehouse’s delightful and innovative poetry ever to have been found. Norman Murphy, author of A Wodehouse Handbook and In Search of Blandings , writes: “When a team of researchers, all of whom know their Wodehouse and know precisely when Wodehouse was working at the Globe , undertake a slow, painstaking analysis of the column, then we should pay attention. And when they collectively can agree on when a paragraph has the indefinable unmistakable Wodehouse ‘touch,’ then I am confident we can accept their findings as conclusive.” Dawson: “The books are the result of hundreds of hours of study and research by the Wodehouse authorities and experts associated with the project. We’re confident our work will enhance the cherished legacy of P. G. Wodehouse.” The Trustees of the Wodehouse Literary Estate acknowledge “the significance of this important step towards understanding Wodehouse’s writing during his early years as a journalist.” Ordering: Priced at US$50 the set, the books can be ordered directly from Seattle Book Company (the distribution arm of our printers), and through Amazon.com. As of 27 September 2015, Amazon.com is now allowing international orders at reasonable shipping rates; Amazon.co.uk is not yet listing the books. Members of the USA and UK Wodehouse Societies will receive special promotional codes through their society journals for a 20% discount from the list price (discount only valid at Seattle Book Company). About Wodehouse. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) is widely regarded as the foremost comic novelist of the twentieth century. His dozens of novels of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, the lovable, dotty Clarence, Earl of Emsworth, and a hilarious host of others have garnered millions of fans over the world and remain in print today. An acknowledged master of the short story as well, his 30 tales of love-struck golfers, as told by “The Oldest Member,” are considered by many to be the best examples of golf fiction ever written. Image at right: Studio photograph of Wodehouse, ca. 1903, by Florence Mason, colorized by Laiz Kuczynski. Also widely known for his Broadway musical theater collaborations with Jerome Kern, Wodehouse wrote literate song lyrics that were praised by Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and many others. The Kern/Wodehouse shows Miss Springtime (1916), Leave It to Jane (1917), Oh, Boy! (1917–18) and Oh, Lady! Lady!! (1918) are considered to have revolutionized musical comedy, in no small part due to Wodehouse’s intelligent, witty lyrics. In addition to some 100 books and more than 300 show lyrics published during his lifetime, in his days as a journalist Wodehouse wrote for London publications such as Punch, The Strand Magazine, and a variety of papers and magazines. During the period covered by the two P. G. Wodehouse in the Globe Newspaper books, Wodehouse wrote and published his first books: The Pothunters (1902), A Prefect’s Uncle (1903), Tales of St. Austin’s (1903), The Gold Bat (1904), The Head of Kay’s (1905), The White Feather (1907), Love Among the Chickens (1906), Not George Washington (1907), and The Globe By the Way Book (1908), as well as nearly 500 articles, stories and poems. P.G. Wodehouse. b. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, 15 October 1881, Guildford, Surrey, England, d. 14 February 1975, Southampton, Long Island, New York, USA. A lyricist and librettist, and the author of a series of more than 90 humorous novels, mostly dealing with an ‘hilarious, light-hearted satire on life among the British gentry, notably the inane Bertie Wooster and his impeccable valet, Jeeves’. His father was a British judge, based in Hong Kong, and Wodehouse lived in the colony with his parents until he was four, and then, for the next four years, was entrusted to a family in London, along with his three brothers. After elementary education at various boarding schools, he attended Dulwich College in the outskirts of London, and excelled at Latin and Greek. He graduated in 1900, and worked for a time at the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank in London. A year later, he joined The Globe newspaper, eventually becoming the editor of the humorous column, ‘By The Way’. In 1904, he wrote the lyric for ‘Put Me In My Cell’, for a new show, Sergeant Brue, which opened in December at the Strand Theatre. Two years later, the renowned actor-manager, Seymour Hicks, offered him the job of writing song lyrics for the Aldwych shows. It was at the Aldwych Theatre that Wodehouse met the young American composer Jerome Kern, who was just beginning to make a name for himself. Together, they wrote the song, ‘Mr. Chamberlain’, a satire on the British politician, Joseph Chamberlain, for The Beauty Of Bath. It stopped the show each night, and became a country-wide hit. During the next few years, in between his prolific literary output which involved several trips to the USA, Wodehouse contributed sketches and lyrics to three more London shows, The Gay Gordons, The Bandit’s Daughter, and Nuts And Wine. In September 1914, he married an English widow, Ethel Rowley, in New York, and finally settled in the USA. Three months later, in his capacity as the drama critic of Vanity Fair, he attended the first night of the musical comedy Very Good Eddie, which had music by Kern, and a libretto by Philip Bartholomae and Guy Bolton. When Kern introduced Wodehouse and Bolton, it marked the beginning of collaboration during which the trio (two Englishmen and one New Yorker), contributed books, music and lyrics to a number of witty, entertaining, and highly successful Broadway musicals. Firstly though, there were two false starts: Wodehouse was called in to assist the lyricist-librettist Anne Caldwell, on Pom-Pom (1916), and then the new team was asked to ‘Americanize’ and provide a new book and some additional songs for a Viennese operetta called Miss Springtime. The show was a hit, and contained some charming Wodehouse lyrics in numbers such as ‘Throw Me A Rose’, ‘My Castle In The Air’, and the risqué ‘A Very Good Girl On Sunday’. The trio’s first original musical comedy, Have A Heart (1917), had music by Kern, and lyrics by Wodehouse, who also collaborated with Bolton on the book. Although critically acclaimed, the show ran for less than a 100 performances, despite an outstanding score which included ‘You Said Something’, ‘And I Am All Alone’, ‘They All Look Alike’, ‘Honeymoon Inn’, ‘I See You There’, and ‘Napoleon’. The young team’s initial impact was made in February 1917 with Oh, Boy!, the first, and the more successful of their two famous Princess Theatre Musicals. Kern and Bolton had already worked together at the Princess in 1915, with lyricist Schuyler Greene. The tiny theatre had a capacity of only 299, and so was not able to handle the large operetta-style productions that were currently in vogue, or afford to employ established performers and writers. Kern, Wodehouse, and Bolton were interested in writing more intimate shows anyway, with songs that were integrated into plots that sometimes bordered on farce with their tales of misidentity and suchlike, but came as a welcome relief from the stodginess of the European imports. Oh, Boy! was a prime example of what they were aiming for, and proved to be a smash hit from the start, eventually running for over 450 performances. One of the show’s stars, Anna Wheaton, helped to promote the production with her successful record of one of the hit numbers, ‘Till The Clouds Roll By’, and some of the other songs (nearly 20 of them) included ‘Ain’t It A Grand And Glorious Feeling’, ‘A Package Of Seeds’, ‘Flubby Dub, The Cave Man’, ‘Nesting Time In Flatbush’, ‘Words Are Not Needed’, ‘An Old Fashioned Waltz’, and the delightfully rueful duet, ‘You Never Knew About Me’. The production transferred to London two years later, where it was re-titled Oh, Joy!, and gave Beatrice Lillie her first role in a book musical. While Oh, Boy! was resident at the Princess Theatre, Wodehouse was involved with four other New York shows in 1917. Firstly, he collaborated again with Kern and Bolton for Leave It To Jane, a musical adaptation of George Ade’s comedy, The College Widow. This was similar in style to Oh, Boy!, and included The Siren’s Song’, ‘The Crickets Are Calling’, ‘Leave It To Jane’, ‘The Sun Shines Brighter’, ‘Wait Till Tomorrow’, ‘Cleopatterer’ (an amusing piece of Egyptian hokum), and several more. The show was revived off-Broadway more than 40 years later, in 1959, and ran for over two years. For Wodehouse, Leave It To Jane was followed by Kitty Darlin’ (music by Rudolph Friml), The Riviera Girl (music by Emmerich Kalman and Kern), and Miss 1917 (music by Victor Herbert and Kern). The young rehearsal pianist for Miss 1917 was George Gershwin, in his first professional job in the theatre. In February 1918, Wodehouse, Bolton, and Kern completed Oh, Lady!, Lady. their final Princess Theatre show together. The all-star cast included Vivienne Segal, who sang ‘Not Yet’, ‘Do Look At Him’, ‘It’s A Hard, Hard World For A Man’, and ‘When The Ships Come Home’, amongst others. It is sometimes said that disagreements over financial affairs between Kern and Wodehouse caused them to part, at least temporarily. In any event, although the three men were to work in pairs during the next few years, the brief spell when they combined to contribute to the dawn of a joyous revolution of the American musical theatre was over, except for Sitting Pretty (1924), which proved to be a 95 performance disappointment. During the next two years Wodehouse contributed book and/or lyrics to productions such as See You Later, The Girl Behind The Gun, The Canary, Oh, My Dear!, The Rose Of China, and The Golden Moth, with a variety of composer, lyricists and librettists, such as Jean Schwartz, Joseph Szulc, Ivan Caryll, George Barr, Louis Verneuill, Louis Hirsch, Caldwell and Kern, with whom he wrote ‘The Church Around The Corner’ and ‘You Can’t Keep A Good Girl Down’ for Sally (1920). In the early 20s, he collaborated with Kern again on two successful London shows, The Cabaret Girl and The Beauty Prize. Two years later, Bolton and Wodehouse wrote the book for George and Ira Gershwin’s hit, Oh, Kay!, and they were both involved again in The Nightingale (1927) (‘Breakfast In Bed’, ‘May Moon’, ‘Two Little Ships’), with music by Armand Vecsey. In 1927, Kern staged his masterpiece, Show Boat, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. Interpolated into their score, was ‘Bill’, a song which was written by Kern and Wodehouse nearly 10 years previously, and cut from the original scores of Oh, Lady! Lady!! (1918) and Zip Goes A Million (1919). It was sung in Show Boat by Helen Morgan, and provided Wodehouse with the biggest song hit of his career. In the following year, he collaborated with lyricist Ira Gershwin, his brother George, and Sigmund Romberg, for the popular Rosalie, starring Marilyn Miller (‘Hussars March’, ‘Oh Gee! Oh Joy!’, ‘Say So’, ‘West Point Song’, ‘Why Must We Always Be Dreaming?’). Ironically, for someone who had been at the forefront of the radical changes in American show music for the past 10 years, Wodehouse’s final set of Broadway lyrics were for an operetta. With lyricist Clifford Grey and composer Friml, he contributed numbers such as ‘March Of The Musketeers’ and ‘Your Eyes’ to Florenz Ziegfeld’s music adaptation of Alexander Dumas’ The Three Musketeers (1928), which starred Segal and Dennis King, and ran for over 300 performances. With a final flourish, Wodehouse’s Broadway career ended with a smash hit, when he and Bolton provided the book for Cole Porter’s Anything Goes (1934). In that same year, Bertie Wooster and Jeeves appeared together in a novel for first time, and Wodehouse, who had been balancing several balls in the air for most of his working life, at last allowed the musical one to drop to earth. During the 30s he spent some time in Hollywood, adapting his novel, A Damsel In Distress, for the screen. In July 1940, while at his villa in Le Touquet on the French Riviera, he was taken into custody by the German invading forces, charged with being an enemy alien, and interned in the local lunatic asylum at Tost in Upper Silesia. In June 1941, he was moved to Berlin, and subsequently broadcast a series of humorous talks about his experiences as a prisoner of war, which were transmitted to America. In Britain, where the population was constantly under siege from German aircraft, Wodehouse was reviled in the press and on radio, and there was talk of him being tried for treason - although most of the British population had not heard what turned out to be fairly innocuous broadcasts. Still in custody, he was transferred to Paris, and eventually liberated in August 1944. He returned to the USA in 1947, and became an American citizen in 1955. He continued to write constantly, and in 1971, on his 90th birthday, his 93rd volume was published. Four years later, perhaps in a belated national gesture of reconciliation, Wodehouse, was created a Knight Commander of the British Empire in the UK New Year honours list, just two months before he had a heart attack, and died in a Long Island hospital in February 1975. As for the charges levelled at him during World War II, according to secret British government files released in 1996, Wodehouse was considered ‘a vain and stupid ass’ rather than a traitor. In June 1998, those infamous letters describing his life in wartime Berlin and Paris were part of 6, 300 pieces of Wodehouse memorabilia which realised $351, 900 (£211, 140) at Sotheby’s in New York, following the death of their owner, publisher James Heineman. The Globe By the Way Book by P.G. Wodehouse. WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Swoop! Or How Clarence Saved England, A Tale of the Great Invasion. Alston Rivers Ltd., 1909. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers printed in orange and black. Illustrated with cartoon style drawings by C. Harrison. A very good copy indeed with a short split to the joint at the base of the spine neatly repaired and minor wear to the spine ends. Internally exceptionally clean. An unusually fresh copy, seldom encountered in such a well preserved state. Housed in quarter morocco clamshell case. A short comic novel, issued only in paper wrappers, to be sold as cheap fiction at train stations and news stands. Due to its construction very few copies have survived in anything like acceptable condition. "The Swoop and The Globe by the Way Book are among the rarest Wodehousiana" - Eileen McIlvaine (P.G.Wodehouse A Comprehensive Bibliography) To speak to us about this item, please call us on +44 (0)1491 576427 or send us a message using the contact form.