Show A MASTER OF THK PEN WAS THB LATIt T HUOHBSTHB HNOLIBH AUTHOR lilt frko nalo1 roIana AI r1ma Is esry UI 1her tle nllIllo IAnCGOKa It epoaenTent Ilrown kltool Us7L HOMA8 nuninw Iho author of Tom Ilrutvns SchoolDays I J School-Days nail Tom 1 llrown at Oxford and tho founder of the Ilrltlsh settlement settle Trnn died In loOn don roeenily at a ripe old age Thomas II II Rhea or > Tom llronn ns ho was culled In nglnml conferred joy on all hops In English speaking coiinlrlm when hew he-w totn Tom Drown Had ho aecom illshed nothing more ho would have earned a great name And It Is I to lull one book hat almost nil his fame U duo at leant In America Since It was first pulitlnhed Tom Drown has been considered by HIP moot l competent erlllcstho boys themiehe to bo by for the best book of nil times There Is nothing of dramatic Inlerent In the life of Thoma HURIM If hla life at Ilughy sod Oxford the crack school and creek university of Kngland l Is ex cepled Yet ho Inns been n man of same prominence In hl < country Ho was Ibo second son of John Hughe of Donning ton Priory near Newberry In Ilcrk shire and born at Ufllngton In the same county on Oct 20 183 Ills grandfather grand-father was tho vicar of Ulnngton At Ibo ago of 7 10 l was sent to school at Twyford near Winchester and Three years later ho was sent to Rugby then tho crack school of Kngland where ho pent Iris chool days under the celebrated celebrat-ed 1 Dr Arnold It was while hero hs Ihed lire life the Incidents and color or which ho so delightfully described In Tom Drawn and tradition has It as In tho case of Dlckeni and Copper field that Tom llrown was Tom Hughm At nil events Mr Hughes strong healthy and robust character 01 body and mind ai a man might Iiivo had just such a foundation as Is laid In Ills famous book From Ilugby he went to Oxford where Oriel college gavo him a degree In 1815 The fruits of his life it college were given 10 ho world In Tom Drown nt Oxford hilt this book for rnontnnlcty and real Interest cannot can-not bo classed with his tint effort Mr Hughes was a voluminous writer Tom Drowns School Days was published pub-lished In 1857 Tom Drown at Oxford < f1J h i I v YL X < or I r b V Tiin LATH THOMAS minims and lUllglo Laid In ISO the Iatc being a series of Tracts for Priest soil People The Cause of Freedom In I 1803 being an Inquiry Into the civil war Many other work cam from iris I pen but the above were i the belt known In 1847 Mr Hughe married Anne Francis Fran-cis Lord Iho daughter of nn English clergyman |