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1936 short story collection by P. G. Wodehouse

Young Men in Spats is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 3 April 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, then in the United States with a slightly different selection of stories on 24 July 1936 by Doubleday, Doran, New York. The collection, recounting the adventures of various members of the Drones Club (except for the last one), features many familiar characters from Wodehouse's other writings, including Freddie Widgeon and the irrepressible Mr Mulliner. One story, "Uncle Fred Flits By", features the first appearance of Pongo Twistleton and his Uncle Fred, who featured in four novels, including two appearances at Blandings Castle. The US edition contains a slightly different selection of stories from the UK version. "Tried in the Furnace" and "Trouble Down At Tudsleigh" had not previously appeared in the US, and were held back so they could garner greater income from magazine sales. (Both stories eventually appeared in Cosmopolitan.) These two stories were accordingly replaced by three Oldest Member golf stories, "There's Always Golf", "The Letter of the Law", and "Farewell to Legs". These three Oldest Member stories had all appeared in US magazines in 1935 and early 1936; they all later appeared in the UK in Lord Emsworth and Others (1937). After their Cosmopolitan appearances, "Tried in the Furnace" was included in the US only collection The Crime Wave at Blandings (1937), and "Trouble Down at Tudsleigh" was included in the US edition of Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940).

Wodehouse's stories use vivid imagery which involves similes and metaphors that draw from a wide range of literary and cultural sources. These comparisons seem to be highly incongruous at first glance, yet are appropriate to the particular situation. For example, the Crumpet describes the beautiful but stern Drusilla in "Noblesse Oblige": "I received the impression of a sort of blend of Tallulah Bankhead and a policewoman". Also, in "The Amazing Hat Mystery", the Crumpet states the following: "Talking to Elizabeth Bottsworth had always been like bellowing down a well in the hope of attracting the attention of one of the lesser infusoria at the bottom". A third example can be seen in "The Luck of the Stiffhams", when Lord Wivelscombe is experiencing a hangover: "He was in an overwrought state when a fly treading a little too heavily on the carpet is enough to make a man think he's one of the extras in All Quiet On The Western Front". In Wodehouse's stories, syntactic and lexical ambiguities often result in misunderstandings between characters that lead to comic interactions. This occurs in "The Amazing Hat Mystery", when Percy interprets Nelson's use of the word "abroad" as meaning "in foreign parts", rather than "in the land":

"There is lawlessness and licence abroad. ""And here in England too. ""Well, naturally, you silly ass," said Nelson, with some asperity. "When I said abroad, I didn't mean abroad, I meant abroad". Parallel constructions are sometimes used in Wodehouse's stories, resulting in comic incongruous contradictions. An example of this occurs in "The Luck of the Stiffhams" (when Wivelscombe tells Geraldine he has seen a ghost):"You look as if you had seen a ghost. ""I have seen a ghost. ""The White Lady of Wivelscombe? ""No, the Pink Secretary of Wivelscombe." One of the stylistic devices used in Wodehouse's stories to create humour is the pun. A pun plays a large role in "Noblesse Oblige", as the story depends on the similarity in pronunciation between the French mille and the English meal, as shown in the following quote from the story:
"But you said you had to have a mille. ""And a meal is just what I am going to have," replied the chap, enthusiastically. Some of Wodehouse's characters have names that give humorous effects in pronunciation, one example being Freddie Widgeon's uncle Lord Blicester (pronounced "blister"), who first appears in "Noblesse Oblige".

In the Strand (UK), Gilbert Wilkinson illustrated "Tried in the Furnace", "Trouble Down at Tudsleigh", "The Amazing Hat Mystery", "Goodbye to All Cats", "The Luck of the Stiffhams", "Noblesse Oblige", "Archibald and the Masses", "The Code of the Mulliners", and "The Fiery Wooing of Mordred". Treyer Evans illustrated "Fate". In Cosmopolitan (US), Mario Cooper illustrated "Tried in the Furnace", "The Amazing Hat Mystery", "The Luck of the Stiffhams", "Noblesse Oblige", and "Archibald and the Masses". James Montgomery Flagg illustrated "Fate", "Trouble Down at Tudsleigh", "Goodbye to All Cats", and "The Code of the Mulliners". "The Fiery Wooing of Mordred" was illustrated by Robert O. Reed. "Goodbye to All Cats" and "The Fiery Wooing of Mordred" were included in the 1939 collection Week End Wodehouse (UK edition), "Tried in the Furnace" and "Archibald and the Masses" were featured in the 1939 collection The Week End Wodehouse (US edition). "Tried in the Furnace" and "Trouble Down at Tudsleigh" were part of the 1949 collection The Best of Wodehouse, edited by Scott Meredith. "Tried in the Furnace", "The Amazing Hat Mystery", "Goodbye to All Cats", and "Noblesse Oblige" were collected in The Most of P. G. Wodehouse, published in 1960. "The Fiery Wooing of Mordred" was included in the 1981 collection Wodehouse on Crime. "Tried in the Furnace" and "The Amazing Hat Mystery" were included in the 1978 collection Vintage Wodehouse, a collection edited by Richard Usborne. A collection of clergy related Wodehouse stories titled The World of Wodehouse Clergy, published in 1984, featured "Tried in the Furnace". "The Amazing Hat Mystery", "Goodbye to All Cats", and "Archibald and the Masses" were featured in P. G. Wodehouse Short Stories, published in 1985 by The Folio Society and illustrated by George Adamson. The first eight stories in the collection were included in the 1982 omnibus Tales from the Drones Club. The last three stories were included in the 1972 collection The World of Mr. Mulliner. "Tried in the Furnace" was published in the periodical Book of the Week Club, a supplement to the Syracuse Herald, on 19 September 1937, along with another Wodehouse story, The Medicine Girl. "The Fiery Wooing of Mordred" was included in the anthology Modern Short Stories, published by J. M. Dent in 1939. "The Amazing Hat Mystery" was featured in the 1939 anthology Jackdaw's Nest: A Fivefold Anthology, edited by Gerald William Bullett. "Tried in the Furnace" was included in the 1942 anthology A Treasury of British Humor, edited by Morris Bishop and published by Coward McCann. The book The Week End Book of Humor, with stories selected by Wodehouse and Scott Meredith, included "Trouble Down at Tudsleigh", which was the only Wodehouse story featured in the book. This collection was published in 1952 in the US and 1954 in the UK, and was reissued with the alternate title P. G. Wodehouse Selects the Best of Humor in the US in 1965, and as P. G. Wodehouse Selects the Best of Humour in the UK in 1966.

Richard Usborne adapted "The Amazing Hat Mystery" into a radio drama, which was broadcast on the BBC Home Service on 25 April 1962. Produced by Rayner Heppenstall, "The Amazing Hat Mystery" featured Ronald Baddiley as Percy Wimbolt, David Enders as Nelson Cork, Denise Bryer as Elizabeth Bottsworth, and Mary Wimbush as Diana Punter. "Trouble Down at Tudsleigh", "The Luck of the Stiffhams", and "The Code of the Mulliners" were adapted as episodes of the television series Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978). "Goodbye to All Cats" was read by John Alderton for an episode of BBC One's five episode Welcome to Wodehouse series. The episode was broadcast on 5 February 1982.