Preface
_ _The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic‘s_ is a story of public-school life, and was written for the _Boy‘s Own Paper_, in the Fourth Volume of which it appeared. The numbers containing it are now either entirely out of print or difficult to obtain； and many and urgent have been the requests--from boys themselves, as well as from parents, head masters, and others--for its re-issue as a book.
Of the story itself little need be said. It deals in a bright and vigorous style with the kaleidoscopic, throbbing life of a great public school--that world in miniature which, in its daily opportunities and temptations, ambitions and failures, has so often afforded superabundant material for narratives powerful to enchain the attention and sway the emotions, whether to smiles or tears. This will take its place, amongst the best of them.
Though the story is one of school life, its interest is by no means limited to school or college walls. Boys of all sorts and conditions-- ay, an

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