1873.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
75 
21st Thousand. 
THE 
HOOSIER 
SCHOOL- MASTER. 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON. 
Finely Illustrated, with 12 Full-Page 
Engravings, and Numerous Other 
Cuts. 
"The many deligUteil readers of ' Tlic 
Hoosier 5chool-3Iaster' will finrt new pleas- 
ure in Uiis last and, if possible, more fas- 
cinating work." 
The Great Story, 
The End of the 
Wor 
A LOVE STORY. 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON, 
Author of "The Hoosier School- Mauler." 
Thirty-two Fine Illustrations. 
F1UE AND 13K1M3TONE. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
More til ail one "Yankee school-marm" now laboring in 
the West will both smile and weep over scenes which find 
their counterpart in their own daily experience. There is 
no exaggeration in style or incident; indeed, the book 
should be many times larger ere Edward Eggleston laid 
aside a pen which had told but half the joys or trials which 
await a Hoosier school-master. This is one of those books 
that will live, and future years will give tin story an added 
charm and pathos, and its author undying fame.— American 
Housewife. 
The plot is very simple, and of easy prevision from the 
first, being the struggles of Ralph Hartsook with the young 
Idea in the district school on Flat Creek, where the twig 
was early bent to thrash the school-master The story 
Is very well told, in a plain fashion, without finely-studied 
points Mr. Eggleston is the first to touch in fiction 
the kind of life he ha-: represented, and we imagine that 
future observers will hardly touch it in more points. Its 
traits seem to be all here, both the good and the had ; but 
that it is a past or passing state of things is sufficiently 
testified by the fact, to which Mr. Eggleston alludes in his 
preface, that the story, as it appeared serially, was nowhere 
more popular than in Southern Indiana. Flat Creek, 
Hoopole County, would not, we imagine, have been so well 
pleased thirty years ago with a portrait which, at any rate, 
is not flattered.— Atlantic Monthly. 
Eggleston's "Hoosier School-Master" is full of rich and 
racy humor, and makes us regret that its author has turned 
his back to the pulpit, in which wit is needed quite as much 
as wisdom, and the ability to make men laugh Is only less 
valuable than the power of making them weep. In fact, as 
a general thing, he who can not raise a smile on people's faces 
may pnmp in vain for tears.— Golden Age, N.Y. 
Dr. Eggleston lived as a boy in this region (Southern In- 
diana!, and this book is a faithful witness that the impres- 
sion made upon his mind by its social peculiarities remains 
to this day perfectly distinct and legible. Indeed, we have 
rarely read any story whose truthfulness as a picture of life 
was more apparent. The characters arc clearly drawn ; the 
conversation is natural ; the whole view of the backwoods 
society is consistent and lifelike.— N. Y. Independent. 
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NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
Dr. Eggleston's new etory is the best he has written. 
"TheHoosierSchool-Mastcr" was good, but The End 
of the World shows a better plot, better character-draw- 
ing, and more firm and consistent treatment throughout. 
.... The book is exceedingly wholesome. The sen- 
timent throughout is pure. It contains not one morbid 
or cynical page. It exhibits the passion of love under 
its healthiest manifestation, and treats the relations of 
the sexes in a perfectly normal way When a 
hook like this— so full of nature and reality, so cheer- 
ful and yet so reverent, so free from mawkish senti- 
ment and poisonous theories — starts out with a first 
edition of ten thousand copies, it is a good sign for 
our popular literature. It is one of the books that the 
people will bo sure to read, and they will find in it a 
perfectly innocent and healthy enjoyment. — 77« Inde- 
pendent. 
The personages who figure in this story are, with one 
exception, country people — such men and women as 
Wordsworth lovedto study. It is not every man, what- 
ever may be his talents, that can safely enter this sphere 
of literary labor. To be successful in it, he must possess 
exceptional qualities ; hut for those who know how to 
find it, here there is gold of the purest, richest kind. In 
such a work, however, there is no convenient place 
where mediocrity can rest ; there is nothing but absolute 
failure or absolute success. And Mr. Eggleston has suc- 
ceeded. His power lies in the delineation of character. 
The plot is ingenious and natural, the incidents are man- 
aged with great skill, and there arc many descriptive 
passages of singular force and beauty. But the strongest 
impression left on the reader' 1 s mind as he closes the 
volume is that he has been in the company of very inter- 
esting men and women, and has made a number of new 
and valuable acquaintance?.— The Albion, New York. 
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Carpenters have no time for extensive studies, and 
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The large and simple reference letters, cast ex- 
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