, when in all likelihood he is one of the humblest and truest
and most childlike of the Reviewer's acquaintance.

But let our Reviewer come across him again in a year or two, when the
"thoughtful life" has become habitual to him, and fits him as easily as
his skin; and, if he be honest, I think he will see cause to reconsider
his judgment. For he will find the boy, grown into a man, enjoying
every-day life as no man can who has not found out whence comes the
capacity for enjoyment, and who is the Giver of the least of the good
things of this world--humble, as no man can be who has not proved his
own powerlessness to do right in the smallest act which he ever had to
do--tolerant, as no man can be who does not live daily and hourly in the
knowledge of how Perfect Love is for ever about his path, and bearing
with and upholding him.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] For those who believe with me in public school education, the fact
stated in the following extract from a note of Mr. G. De Bunsen, will be
hailed with pleasure, especially now that our alliance with Prussia (the
most natural and healthy European alliance for Protestant England) is
likely to be so much stronger and deeper than heretofore. Speaking of
this hook, he says,--"The author is mistaken in saying the public
schools, in the English sense, are peculiar to England. Schul Pforte (in
the Prussian province of Saxony) is similar in antiquity and
institutions. I like his book all the more for having been there for
five years."

[B] "To him (Arnold) and his admirers we owe the substitution of the
word 'earnest' for its predecessor 'serious'"--_Edinburgh Review_, No.
217, p. 183.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

CHAPTER I.
THE BROWN FAMILY 1

CHAPTER II.
THE VEAST 21

CHAPTER III.
SUNDRY WARS AND ALLIANCES 44

CHAPTER IV.
THE STAGE COACH 68

CHAPTER V.
RUGBY AND FOOTBALL 87

CHAPTER VI.
AFTER THE MATCH 112

CHAPTER VII.
SETTLING TO THE COLLAR 134

CHAPTER VIII.
THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 158

CHAPTER IX.
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS 184

PART II.

CHAPTER I.
HOW THE TIDE TURNED 213

CHAPTER II.
THE NEW BOY 228

CHAPTER III.
ART