English Children's Literature: Individual School Story Books--The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's (1???)


Figure 1.--Here is an illustration from "The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's". The boys do not appear to be wearing a school uniform. I'm nit sure just what is going on. I do not know who the illustrator is.

A particularly well known school story is Talbot Baines Reed's The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's published about 1900. It concerns Stephen Greenfield, a new boy at St. Dominic's, where his elder brother, Oliver, is already a pupil. Stephen is led astray by Loman, the school cad, and a much older boy. Loman loses money in gambling, and involves Stephen. As an indirect result of this, Oliver is falsely accused of cheating in his bid to win a scholarship which would help to pay his school fees. All comes well in the end; Loman is disgraced and Oliver is cleared of any wrongdoing. It is typical of this genre, uprightness and decency triumphing over badness exemplifying Victorian morality.






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