DAVID BLAIZE OF KING'S (Timeless Wisdom Collection)

In this second volume of the David Blaize story by E.F. Benson, he is nineteen and a student at ford. He is the David of the earlier book, with a difference. The tumultuous younger David, giving his energy its necessary outlet in all manner of mischief, is still recognizable in the leader of the Great Rag and in the pajama-d youth who undertook to navigate his room in the dark without once touching the floor and proceeded solemnly from bed to piano and from piano to window-sill till calamity overtook him.
But here, too, is another and more admirable David emerging from the chrysalis of the hobbledehoy, a boy who looks at life with clean young eyes, rejoicing in its beauty but making no effort to avert his gaze from its ugliness, taking his fill of the one and struggling with the other as best he can. It is a picture of English college life which bears well the test of comparison with "Tom Brown."

It bubbles with the gravely nonsensical concerns of carefree youth and, without smugness, uncovers the idealism which is its most precious possession.