I RECEIVED the following letter from an old friend soon after the last edition of this book was published, and resolved, if ever another edition were called for, to print it. For it is clear from this and other like comments, that something more should have been said expressly on the subject of bullying, and how it is to be met. "I blame myself for not having earlier suggested whether you could not, in another edition of Tom Brown, or another story, denounce more decidedly the evils of _bullying_ at schools. You have indeed done so, and in the best way, by making Flashman the bully the most contemptible character; but in that scene of the _tossing_, and similar passages, you hardly suggest …
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