Mr. Wodehouse says that one epoch of his literary career dates from his purchase of an automobile in 1907.  The purchase was an investment of considerable gravity to a young writer just commencing to command an entree.  The automobile lasted some two weeks and came to a violent end against a telephone pole.  Mr. Wodehouse thought out the major problems of life sitting on the turf near the pole from a more or less lacerated point of view.  He decided, among other things, that his forte was rather writing about motors than riding about in motors.

Mr. Wodehouse’s second novel will be an even greater success than “The Intrusion of Jimmy.”  Mr. Wodehouse spent last winter on the Riviera writing this book, and his friends who have read the advance pages, agree with the publishers that it will deserve and receive even greater cordiality than the first.  The title will be “The Prince and Betty,” and it will be something for novel readers to look forward to.