passages have been omitted from the original text, in the
belief that it will thus be better adapted for the use of American
schoolboys; and the typographical errors of former editions have
been corrected.

N. L. R.

CANTON, N.Y.,
_October_ 20, 1888.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

CHAPTER I.
THE BROWN FAMILY 1

CHAPTER II.
THE "VEAST" 24

CHAPTER III.
SUNDRY WARS AND ALLIANCES 49

CHAPTER IV.
THE STAGE COACH 73

CHAPTER V.
RUGBY AND FOOT-BALL 92

CHAPTER VI.
AFTER THE MATCH 118

CHAPTER VII.
SETTLING TO THE COLLAR 139

CHAPTER VIII.
THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 163

CHAPTER IX.
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS 189

PART II.

CHAPTER I.
HOW THE TIDE TURNED 215

CHAPTER II.
THE NEW BOY 230

CHAPTER III.
ARTHUR MAKES A FRIEND 246

CHAPTER IV.
THE BIRD-FANCIERS 264

CHAPTER V.
THE FIGHT 281

CHAPTER VI.
FEVER IN THE SCHOOL 303

CHAPTER VII.
HARRY EAST'S DILEMMAS AND DELIVERANCES 324

CHAPTER VIII.
TOM BROWN'S LAST MATCH 343

CHAPTER IX.
FINIS 370

INDEX TO NOTES 381

THOMAS HUGHES.

Thomas Hughes is a native of the royal county of Berkshire, England.
From the nursery windows of the old farmhouse in Uffington, where he
was born, in 1823, he delighted in looking out on that famous White
Horse Hill which he describes in the opening chapters of "Tom Brown's
School Days."

His father was such an English squire as he represents Tom's father to
be, and his grandfather was vicar of the parish, and therefore a man
of a good deal of local influence. When a child, young Hughes must
have become familiar with the old parish church, which dates almost
from the time of William the Conqueror, and which has within it some
Roman brickwork which carries one back to the days when Agricola's
legions were building walled towns in Britain.

Thus the lad's earliest recollecti