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To You, Mr. Chips (1938) - Frenuyum - 03-23-2026
Four years after publishing the classic novel Good-Bye, Mr. Chips, James Hilton returned with a collection of short stories that revisited the lovable schoolmaster at Brookfield who had spent fifty years of his life educating boys form the late-Victorian era through the early-30s. I must admit upfront that I'm probably rating this a little higher than an unbiased reader might. I'm a Hilton fan. And I also went to an all-boys high school founded in the 1840s and with the type of multi-generational traditions and stories that are as close as possible to Hilton's Brookfield as the United States might have, excepting perhaps those old New England boarding schools. We had Mr. Chips at our school (don't most schools, in one form or another?); ours was a brother (since it was a Catholic school) who had taught generations of students and who in his very old age puttered around campus in a golf cart with his German shepherds. The stories surrounding the man were legendary. Long story short: I begin this review stating that Hilton's book connected with me, as did the first Mr. Chips book, and so my rating is probably higher for that reason.