ARNOLD (William Delafield).

Oakfield, or Fellowship in the East.

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1854. Second edition. Two volumes. Original blue cloth. 8vo. Wolff 185a, with his note, "this novel, by the younger son of Thomas Arnold and brother of Mathew Arnold, is of major importance both as an account of the British in India and as a vivid picture of religious doubt and a young man's crisis of conscience. It is fully discussed in Wolff, "Gains and Losses".. "Oakfield" depicts the struggles of a young officer of exceptional culture and seriousness to elevate the low tone of military society about him..It is well written and deeply interesting, imbued in every line with the spirit of the author's illustrious father.." Arnold was an Anglo-Indian official and novelist. In 1856 he was appointed director of public instruction in the Punjab and is still commemorated in Punjan schools today; his memory and that of his wife is celebrated by his brother Arnold in "A Southern Night". Arnold was a keen sportsman, and while in the sixth form at Rugby school he set out the first organised set of rules of Rugby football. This second edition contains a new preface by the author in which he defends himself against those who say he has slurred the good name of the Indian Army officers. (In the introduction to "Nineteenth Century Fiction" Wolff chooses this book as an example of why some second editions are important and need to be collected.) A presentation copy: "F.B.W. Arnold from her affectionate brother the Author. Blackheath. June. 1854." Bookplate of Kenneth Newton Colville. 32 pp. undated advertisements. Covers lightly rubbed, spine ends nicked and worn. 5 copies in NUC (DLC; PPUCC; Coll; PPL; MB.)

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• libraire: John Hart (GREAT BRITAIN)