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Scanned Book, Title Page recto

TOM BROWN AT OXFORD
By the Author of "Tom Brown's School Days"
New Edition
With Illustrations by Sydney P. Hall

New York
John W. Lovell Company
150 Worth Street, Corner Mission Place

(Transcriber's Notes: Notice the author's name does not appear on
the title page or on the cover, and in fact it is only given as
T. Hughes at the end of his preface and nowhere else. Sydney
Hall, 1842-1922, did portraits, newspaper and magazine
illustrations, but oddly enough there are none to be found in the
Lovell produced book, though the Porter & Coates edition has one
unattributed woodcut)

Verso

Printed and Bound by
Donohue & Henneberry
Chicago

(Transcriber's Note: Donahue & Henneberry were in business
1871-99 doing book binding and printing for the cheap book trade
at various addresses in Chicago's business district known as the
Loop, mostly on Dearborn Street.)

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Proofreading book Title Page recto

TOM BROWN AT OXFORD
By
Thomas Hughes
Author of "Tom Brown's School Days"

Philadelphia
Porter & Coates

(Transcriber's Note: the date 1888 is penciled in here on this
page by a previous owner)

(Transcriber's Note: nothing on the verso, and one unsigned
woodcut illustration opposite the recto)

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Transcriber's Note:

A Short Summary, With Some Explanations of Concepts Presented by
Hughes, but Not Well Defined by Him, Being Apparently Well
Understood in His Day, but With Which Modern Readers May be
Unfamiliar.

This is the sequel to Hughes' more successful novel _Tom Brown's
School Days_, which told about Tom at the Rugby School from the
age of 11 to 16. Now Tom is at Oxford University for a three year
program of study, in which he attends class lectures and does
independent reading with a tutor. A student in residence at
Oxford is said to be "up" or have "come up", and one who leaves
is said to have gone "down".

The author weaves a picture of life at Oxford University in the
1840s, where he himself was at that time, at Oriel College, where
he excelled in sports rather than academics. The University is
made up of a number of separate colleges, and the students form
friendships within and develop a loyalty to their own college.
Tom's college, St. Ambrose, is fictional. The study programs
available to the students are intended to prepare them for the
legal, ecclesiastical, medical and educat