Sydney Selfe epub Notes on the Characters and Incidents Depicted By the Master Hand of Tom Hughes in Tom Brown's Schooldays, Together With Some Supplementary ... Famous Headmaster, Thomas Arnold, 1828-1842

Mr. L. J. Maton, and I had the good fortune to travel from Euston to Rugby for Speech Day, in the same carriage as Mr. W. S. Seton Karr. The company of such a distinguished pupil of Dr. Arnold gave us an opportunity not to be wasted of learning about Rugby in those great days, and before long Tom Brown s Schooldays naturally became the topic of conversation, Mr. Maton and I, mere juveniles of sixty or thereabouts, listening with the deepest interest while Mr. Seton Karr gave us his impressions as to the originals in the book, together with some valuable information as to the Rugby of Arnold stime. Inter alia he mentioned that every one of the principal incidents described by Tom Hughes was founded on fact. As the train approached Rugby Mr. Maton said to me, What we have heard to-day ought to be preserved for the benefit of all Rugbeians. In those days I could not spare the time to take the matter up, but now that I am a man of leisure it has been a pleasure to me to do so, and for some months past I have been engaged in investigations as to (i) The originals of the characters described in Tom Brown s Schooldays ;(2) The incidents on which the action of the book depends. The results of these investigations, to which I have added a few miscellaneous notes regarding the Rugby of those days, are embodied in the following pages.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text.