Poor Tom Bowling

'What on earth's the Tulse Hill Parliament?'

'It is, alas', said Psmith in a grave, sad voice, 'no more. In life it was beautiful, but now it has done the Tom Bowling act. It has gone aloft. We are dealing, Comrade Jackson, not with the live, vivid present, but with the far–off, rusty past. And yet, in a way, there is a touch of the live, vivid present mixed up in it.' 

 Psmith in the City, 18 Psmith Makes a Discovery