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Title: Ernest Bracebridge
School Days

Author: William H. G. Kingston

Illustrator: W Thomas

Release Date: May 15, 2007 [EBook #21452]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

Ernest Bracebridge, School Days, by William H G Kingston.

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A very well-written book--one of Kingston's best. It is about various
events and personalities in a Victorian school. The boy after whom the
book is named is such a heroic character that one can't help wondering
if he is really either Kingston's own son, or maybe the son whom
Kingston would have liked to have.

In one of the last chapters it so happens that some of the boys pay a
visit to another school, which happens to be the one your reviewer was
at. It was astonishing to me to read of institutions and customs at
that school just exactly as they were in my day, seventy years and more
later.

It makes a very good audiobook.

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ERNEST BRACEBRIDGE, SCHOOL DAYS, BY WILLIAM H G KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

THE SCHOOL, THE MASTER, AND HIS BOYS.

It was a half-holiday. One of our fellows who had lately taken his
degree and passed as Senior Wrangler had asked it for us. He had just
come down for a few hours to see the Doctor and the old place. How we
cheered him! How proudly the Doctor looked at him! What a great man we
thought him! He was a great man! for he had won a great victory,--not
only over his fellow-men, not only over his books, by compelling them to
give up the knowledge they contained,--but over his love of pleasure;
over a tendency to indolence; over his temper and passions; and now
Henry Martin was able to commence the earnest struggle of life with the
consciousness, which of itself gives strength, that he had obtained the
most important of all victories--that over self.

There he stood, surrounded by some of the bigger boys who had been at
s