The hoax which this hilarious book describes was outrageous enough to get its young author banned from his Cambridge college for two years. The deliciously-named Rochester Sneath is the fictitious headmaster of a fictitious English public school and the book reproduces letters in which he asks for advice from national figures and headmasters of leading public schools together with the real replies received from the many taken in. A laugh from beginning to end.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 36 September 2006 ) |
