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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