Three Men in a Boat a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity. Following the overwhelming success of "Three Men in a Boat", Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled "Three Men on the Bummel" (also known as "Three Men on Wheels", 1900). The story begins by introducing George, Harris, Jerome (always referred to as "J."), and Jerome's dog, named Montmorency. The men are spending an evening in J.'s room, smoking
The Private Lives of the Three Tenors the tenor might be like was removed from the final version of the book. The book's editor later recalled: "It was so jarring in relation to the rest of the book. It went from a third-person clip job to a weird romance novel kind of steamy scene. I took it out." In its place is a much pared-down, but nonetheless detailed description of what sort of lovers Spanish ""hidalgos"" like Domingo supposedly are. "Newsweek" noted, "It is impossible to know whether the [excised] scene was based on real life." "El País", an important Spanish-language newspaper from Domingo's hometown of Madrid,