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A schoolboy novel of Harrow School where two boys complete for the love of another. Features the Second Boer War. Its sequel is Josh Verney (1911). The book remained in print by John Murray press for over 45 years.
Dedicated to George W. E. Russell, to whom Vachell relates to the main characters of the book: "there are such boys as Verney and Scaife, nobody knows better than yourself." Russell describes his own time at Harrow in a chapter of his autobiography.
Wilfred Owen also read the book and described it in the February 21, 1918 letter to his mother, Susan Owen: "Am now reading a book by Vachell The Hill, a tale of Harrow, and the hills on which I never lay, nor shall lie: heights of thought, heights of friendship, heights of riches, heights of jinks. Lovely and melancholy reading it is for me."
