I am joined by Gwen Sheldon to look at extracts from The Globe By The Way Book — A Literary Quick-Lunch for People Who Have Only Got Five Minutes to Spare (1908) in particular the spoof serial "Women, Wine and Song". We also look at "For Love or Honour" (1907) a serial from the Globe By the Way daily newspaper column. Both works were written with Herbert Westbrook, the Prince of Slackers. Thanks to Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website for sharing these out-of-print delights!

https://www.madameulalie.org/articles/Deconstructing_The_Globe_By_the_Way_Book.html

https://www.madameulalie.org/globe/women_wine_song_01.html

https://www.madameulalie.org/grp/For_Love_or_Honour.html

Also referenced:

"Jeeves Takes Charge" from Carry On, Jeeves

"Goodbye to All Cats" and "The Amazing Hat Mystery" from Young Men in Spats

Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook

Wodehouse scholars John Dawson, Karen Shotting and Neil Midkiff

Lewis Carroll

William Haselden, the book's illustrator

The work of Glen Baxter

Hall Caine

Winston Churchill

Jonathan Swift

Alexander Pope

The Suffragette movement

Bioscopes and myrioramas

The radium craze

The Saphead (film)

Flanders and Swann, "A Song of the Weather"

E Phillips Oppenheim

Peter Motteaux (the "Was for him the work of a moment" chap)

Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle

There is little more to tell.

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