The Lanchester tradition

by G. F. Bradby

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THE LANCHESTER
TRADITION

BY G. F. BRADBY
AUTHOR OF ‘DICK,’ ‘WHEN EVERY TREE WAS GREEN,’
‘THE AWAKENING OF BITTLESHAM,’ ETC.

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1919

First Edition	September, 1913
Reprinted	January, 1914
Reprinted	August, 1919

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PREFACE

This is a school story; but Chiltern School has yet to be founded and the masters and boys who figure in the following pages have never existed outside the author’s brain. It is necessary to say so much, partly because most stories of this kind have admittedly dealt with particular schools, and partly because many readers have very little idea of the workings of the imaginative faculty. At all events, when a professional man ventures to write fiction, they insist on seeing history or caricature, and proceed to affix labels; for there is a general assumption that professional men, and schoolmasters in particular, are necessarily devoid of imagination.