The cover image was restored by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.


A SCHOOLMASTER'S
DIARY


"The man who looks at this view, for the first time, with
the naked eye, sees far more of it than the man who looks
at it for the hundredth time through smoked glasses.
Experience is the smoke on the glasses; it's the curse of
our profession. We are all much more efficient when
we're young than we ever are afterwards. Give me
the young and inexperienced man.
"—"The Lanchester
Tradition."


PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN AT
THE COMPLETE PRESS
WEST NORWOOD
LONDON


TO
ELSPETH TRAHERNE
WITHOUT WHOSE VALUABLE HELP I SHOULD
HAVE BEEN TOTALLY AT A LOSS WHAT TO
INCLUDE AND WHAT TO OMIT
IN MEMORY OF
PATRICK