Two schoolfellows, who had sat together in the Sixth at Clifton, met at Paddington some twenty years later and travelled down to enter their two sons at one school. On their way, while the boys shyly became acquainted, the fathers discussed the project of this story; a small matter in comparison with the real business of that day--but that it happened so gives me the opportunity of dedicating _Fort Amity_ to you, its editor in _The Monthly Review_, as a reminder to outlast the short life granted in these days to novels. Yet if either of our sons shall turn its pages some years hence, though but to remind himself of his first journey to school, I hope he will not lay it down too contemptuou…
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