Together they raised the magazine to as high level of workaday fun and fiction as the bookstalls would endure. Jerome's position was now assured he published novels at regular intervals and, in association with Robert Barr, he edited "The Idler" (1982-1987). He did not disdain to wring laughter out of an odorous cheese. The public of a later day has tired of slapstick on the stage and off, and some of Jerome's jesting seems now to be like the literary form of falling over.
The "Idle Thoughts" have a dry, whimsical touch, and the "Three Men" provide unlimited knockabout fun. In 1889, he published "The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" and "Three Men in Boat," both of which ran through many editions. It was a fresh subject when Jerome brought his wit to bear upon it, and his wry humour attracted attention. The subject of stage life has been considerably over-written by now. He had roughed it in "the smalls," sent out for sixpenny suppers of sheep head's and porter and seen most of the miseries and none of the splendours of the profession on fifteen shillings a week. Its name, "On the Stage and Off," relates to the arrival and departure of Jerome in and from the theatrical world. His first book was written in 1888, the year of his marriage to the daughter of a Spanish officer. Before he was thirty he had sampled several professions he had tried his hand at office work, at teaching, and at acting. Jerome Klapka Jerome was born at Walsall on May 2 1859.
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