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Title: Tom Brown's School Days

Author: Thomas Hughes

Release Date: May 2, 2010 [EBook #32224]

Language: English

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TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS.

[Illustration: CHAIRING TOM IN THE QUADRANGLE. P. 358.]

TOM BROWN'S

SCHOOL DAYS

BY AN OLD BOY

[Illustration]

With Illustrations by Arthur Hughes and Sydney Prior Hall

New York
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1880

TO

MRS. ARNOLD,

OF FOX HOWE,

THIS BOOK IS (WITHOUT HER PERMISSION)

Dedicated

BY THE AUTHOR,

WHO OWES MORE THAN HE CAN EVER ACKNOWLEDGE OR FORGET

TO HER AND HERS.

PREFACE

TO THE SIXTH EDITION.

I RECEIVED the following letter from an old friend soon after the last
edition of this book was published, and resolved, if ever another
edition were called for, to print it. For it is clear from this and
other like comments, that something more should have been said expressly
on the subject of bullying, and how it is to be met.

"MY DEAR ----,

"I blame myself for not having earlier suggested
whether you could not, in another edition of Tom
Brown, or another story, denounce more decidedly
the evils of _bullying_ at schools. You have
indeed done so, and in the best way, by making
Flashman the bully the most contemptible
character; but in that scene of the _tossing_, and
similar passages, you hardly suggest that such
things should be stopped--and do not suggest any
means of putting an end to them.

"This subject has been on my mind for years. It
fills me with grief and misery to think what weak
and nervous children go through at school--how
their health and character for life are destroyed
by