 Jerome's play "Biarritz" had a run of two months at the Prince of Wales Theatre between April and June 1896.In 1898, a short stay in Germany inspired "Three Men on the Bummel", the sequel to "Three Men in a Boat", reintroducing the same characters in the setting of a foreign bicycle tour.The book was nonetheless unable to capture the life-force and historic roots of its predecessor, and it enjoyed only a mild success.