Brinkley Manor

321 pp. Every right-minded lover of Wodehouse is inevitably a a lover of Jeeves, the perfect gentleman's gentleman, and Bertie. In “Brinkley Manor” Bertie, resenting sundry aspersions on the so-called Wooster intelligence, tries to displace the incomparable Jeeves in rescuing those of his friends who tread upon Life's banana skins. The result is side-splitting. Bertie's attempts to tutor his friend, Gussie Rink-Nottle, hermit scientise, in the gentle art of lovemaking (poor Gussie knows only the love-life of news and guppies), and to arbitrate in the emotional warfare between his cousin Angel and plump Tuppy Glossop, bring several people to the verge of a nervous breakdown. And of course, Bertie has to turn to Jeeves for assistance that peace and harmony may be restored to a Brinkley Manor completely demoralized by the Woosterian wool-gathering.