My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Wodehouse is a masterful writer. You don't always notice it, as he writes Bertie Wooster as a bit of an idiot, but even B. Wooster has a way with the words! Obviously, playing with English vocabulary was great fun for the man.
I rarely laugh out loud when reading, but I confess that Gussie and his newt lore got me giggling on a couple of occasions. Of course, as usual, Bertie manages to mess up every situation that he gets involved in. During the course of this book, that would include two engagements, an academic prize presentation, the survival of a women's magazine, plus the retention of the fabulous French chef, Anatole.
If one had a small complaint, it would be that the general plot is somewhat repetitious—Jeeves solves all the problems, Bertie takes the blame/is the butt of the joke, but all is well because some fate worse than death, i.e. engagement, has been averted.
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