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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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THE 
HOOSIER 
SCHOOL-MASTEH. 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON. 
Finely Illustrated, with (2 Full-Page 
Engravings, and Numerous Other 
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The "events '* are stininc: and dramatic, and the style is 
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masterly cuts, it sliould be one of the most popular 
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Some passages in it. for life-lilce delineation and the sim- 
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of story-writinjT. are eqn.il to some of the very best passages 
in JHc^eus.—ReligiouH Telescope. 
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The End of the World. 
A LOVE STORY. 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON, 
Author of "The Iloosier School-Master.'''' 
WITH 
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The personaires who fiijure in this story are, with one 
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of literary labor. To be successful in it. he must possess 
exceptional qualities ; but for tliose who know how to 
find it, here there is sold of the purest, richest kind. In 
sucii a work, however, there is no convenient place 
where mediocritycan rest; there is nothini^ but absolute 
faihu'e or absolute success. And Mr, Ei,'i,'!eston lias suc- 
ceeded. His power lies in the delineation of character. 
The plot is in;,'eijions and natural, the incidents arc nian- 
aijed with £ri**^:it skill, and there are many descriptive 
passages of sinL,'ular force and beauty. But the stron5j:est 
impression left on the reader's mind as he closes tlie 
volume is that he has been in the company of very inter- 
esting men and women, and has made a number of new 
aud valuable acquaintances.— TV^^ Albion, New Yorjj- 
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The Mystery 
OP 
Metropolisville, 
By EDWAKD EGGLESTON, 
Author of '' The Iloosier ."school- Master,'' '' The End 
of the World,'" etc. 
FINELY ILLUSTRATED. 
CONTENTS. 
■ Preface.— Words Beforehand. Cliapter 1. The Autocrat of 
the Stage-Coiich.— 2. The Sod Tavern.— S. Land :mrt Love.— 
4. Albert and Ivaty.— .'i. Corner-Lots.— 6. Little Katy's Lover. 
—7. Catching and Gettiniz Canslit.— 8. Isiibel Marlay.— 
9 Lovers and Lovers. — 10. Plansaby, Esq., takes a Fatherly 
Interest.— IL About Several Things.— 12. An Adventure.— 
13. A Shelter.- U. The Inhabitant.— In. An Episode.— 16. Tlie 
Return.- IT. Sawney and his Old Love.— 18. A Collision.— 
19. Standing Guard in Vain.— 20. Sawney and Westcott.— 
21. Kowiuj;.— 22. Sailing.— 2:J. Sinkin4r.-24. Dragging.- 25. 
Afterward^.— 26. The Mystery .-27. The Arrest.— 28. The 
Tempter.- 29. The Trial.— 30. The Penitentiary.— 31. Mr. 
Lurton.— 32. A Confession.— 33. Deatli.— 34. Mr. Lurton'a 
Cotirtsliip. — r5. Uuburrcd. — oG. Isabel.— 37. The Last.— 
Words Afterwards. 
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Mrs. Plausahy.- The Inh:il»it:int.— A Pinch of Snutf.-Mrs. 
l-erret.— One Savage blow lull in Ilie F.aee.- " What on 
An-rh.-ithe Matter? "—The tiditor of "The Windmill. '— 
" Git up and Fuller ! " 
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JOHN 
ANDROSS. 
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REBECCA HAEDING DAVIS, 
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The characters aud their work are strongly but no donbl 
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It will at once enchain the aitention of the reader, and 
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end. Though the interest of the plot is very considerable, 
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and development of character. There is a great dea*! of 
very life-like painting of people and manners.— CftristiaH 
Union, New York. 
The characters are well drawn, the incidents are full of 
interest, and the plot sustained with consistency and power. 
^Daily Spy, Worcester, Mass. 
We are constantly struck with the outcropping of the 
one golden tluead that holds all her writings together, and 
never fails to shine tluough the web of whatever plot she 
weaves about it— that singleness of point and moral more 
characteristic of her writings than of any other we know of, 
and which is. broadly stated, a self-sacrificing devotiou to 
^Miy.— Daily Standard, Bridgeport, Ct. 
Her hero is a man entangled by the great Ring of Penn- 
sylvania, who is sent by this corporation to the State Senate 
with a hold of criminality to keep him in hand, who even 
then attempts to break loose and join the party of honesty, 
but is at the crisis brought in check again by_Uie King, with 
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MRS. GASTON. 
BY 
J. ESTEN COOKE, 
Author of '"'Tfie Mrginia Comedians,'"' "Dr. Van Dyke,^ 
" Surry of EaqW s iV«^" etc. 
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The narrative is ever animated, and here and there toucli- 
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Gaston, is well drawn and attractive, and the author has 
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A Man of Honor. 
By GEORGE GARY EGGLESTON. 
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