title: Citizens of London: How Britain was Rescued in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
author:  Lynne Olson 
description: "<b>Citizens of London</b> is richly anecdotal and chock full of interesting and pertinent analysis, a riveting, well-researched account of a chapter in history when well-timed collaboration helped save the day." <br />--<i>London Free Press<br /></i><br />"Olson sifts through the immense amount of material on the period and crafts a cracking good read....Finely done." <br />--<i>New York Post<br /></i><br />"Plenty to appreciate thanks to Olson's storytelling skills, including recaps of romance that never seem too gossipy or out of place." <br />--<i>The Christian Science Monitor<br /></i><br />"[An] exceedingly well-told story...a superb trip to an amazing city in time of war."<br />--<i>The Providence Journal-Bulletin</i>
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  # SOMETHING NEW
  
  
  
  
  
  **by P. G. Wodehouse**
  
  
  
  
  
  **Published 1915**
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
  The sunshine of a fair Spring morning fell graciously on London town. Out in
  Piccadilly its heartening warmth seemed to infuse into traffic and pedestrians
  alike a novel jauntiness, so that bus drivers jested and even the lips of
  chauffeurs uncurled into not unkindly smiles. Policemen whistled at their
  posts—clerks, on their way to work; beggars approached the task of trying to
  persuade perfect strangers to bear the burden of their maintenance with that
  optimistic vim which makes all the difference. It was one of those happy
  mornings.
  
  
  
  
  
  At nine o’clock precisely the door of Number Seven Arundell Street, Leicester
  Square, opened and a young man stepped out.
  
  
  
  
  
  Of all the spots in London which may fairly be described as backwaters there
  is none that answers so completely to the descriptio