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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
323 
THE 
HOOSIER 
SCHOOL- MASTER. 
JOHN 
AND ROSS. 
A Man of Honor. 
By GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON. 
Finely Illustrated. 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON. 
Finely Illustrated, with 12 Full-Page 
Engravings, and Numerous Other 
Cuts. 
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It ia full of quaint liumor, a tender pathos, and vivid de¬ 
scriptions.— New York Standard. 
The “ events ” are stirring and dramatic, and the style is 
quiet, impersonal, and almost epigrammatic in its ability to 
lay bare an entire situation or character in a sentence or 
phrase.— Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 
It is at once quaint and truthful, and illustrated as it is by 
masterly cuts, it should be one of the most popular 
books.— Christian Standard (Cincinnati). 
For realistic conception and life-like delineation of char¬ 
acter, it is not excelled by any American story.— Methodist. 
Some passages in it, for life-like delineation and the sim¬ 
ple, artless beauty which constitute the highest perfection 
of story-writing, are equal to some of the very best passages 
in Dickens.— Religious Telescope. 
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The End of the World. 
A LOYE STORY. 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON, 
Author of “The Hoosier School-Master." 
WITH 
Thirty-two Fine Illustrations. 
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The personages who figure in this story are, with one 
exception, country people—such men and women as 
Wordsworth loved to 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; but 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. Ilis power lies in the delineation of character. 
The plot, is ingenious and natural, the incidents are man¬ 
aged with great skill, and there are many descriptive 
passages of singular force and beauty. But the strongest 
impression left on the reader’s mind as he closes the 
volume is that he lias been in ttie company of very inter¬ 
esting men and women, and has made a number of new 
and valuable acquaintances .—The Albion , New Yor^ 
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The Mystery 
BY 
REBECCA HARDING DAVIS, 
Author of '■'■Life in the Iron Mills," “Dallas Oal- 
hraitli," etc., etc. 
ILLUSTRATED. 
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The story is of intense interest, and holds the reader from 
its commencement to its close, and gives much food for 
thought regarding the workings of political rings and gov¬ 
ernment frauds in our large cities.— Post, Salem, Mass. 
The characters and their work are strongly but no doubt 
truthfully drawn. Aside from Ra literary merit, the book 
deserves credit for calling attention to a crying shame of 
our time.— Christian Advocate, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
It will at once enchain the attention of the reader, and 
prove vigorously and skillfully written, by this among 
tlie foremost novel writers of America.— Commonwealth, 
Boston, Mass. 
Of a story of Mrs. Davis it is hardly necessary to say that 
it holds the reader’s absorbed attention from beginning to 
end. Though the interest of the plot is very considerable, 
it is subordinate to the higher interest of the description 
and development of character. There is a great deal of 
very life-like painting of people and manners.— Christian 
Union, New York. 
Tlie 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 out cropping of tlie 
one golden thread that holds all her writings together, and 
never fails to shine through 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 devotion to 
duty .—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 ahold 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 the Ring, with 
tlie still more potent motive of love. . . . Tlie plot is very 
well wrought, and tlie denouement is powerfully conceived 
and managed.— New York Evening Mail. 
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PRETTY 
MRS. GASTON. 
BY 
OF 
Metropolisville, 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON, 
Author of “ The Hoosier School-Master," “ The End 
of the World," etc. 
FINELY ILLUSTRATED. 
CONTENTS. 
Preface.—Words Beforehand. Chapter 1. Tlie Autocrat of 
tlie Stage-Coach.—2. Tlie Sod Tavern.—3. Land and Love.— 
4. Albert and Katy.—5. Corner-Lots.—6. Little Katy’s Lover. 
—7. Catching and Getting Caught—8. Isabel Marlay.— 
9. Lovers and Lovers.—10. Plausaby, Esq., takes a Fatherly 
Interest.—11. About Several Things.—12. An Adventure.— 
13. A Shelter.—14. The Inhabitant.—15. An Episode.—16. The 
Return.—17. Sawney and liis Old Love.—18. A Collision.— 
19. Standing Guard in Vain.—20. Sawney and Westcott.— 
21. Rowing.—22. Sailing.—23. Sinking.—24. Dragging.—25. 
Afterwards.—26. The Mystery.—27. The Arrest.—28. The 
Tempter.—29. The Trial—30. The Penitentiary.—31. Mr. 
Lurton.—32. A Confession.—33. Death.—34. Mr. Lurton's 
Courtship.— 35. Unbarred. —36. Isabel. —37. The Last.— 
Words Afterwards. 
ILLUSTRATIONS.—Br FRANK BEARD. 
His Unselfish Love found a Melancholy Recompense.— 
The Superior Being.—Mr. Minorkey and tlie Fat Gentle¬ 
man.—Plausaby sells Lots.—“ By George! He! he! lie!”— 
Mrs. Plausaby.—The Inhabitant.—A Pinch of Snuff.—Mrs. 
Ferret.—One Savage Blow full in the Face.— 1 “What on 
Airth’s the Matter?’’—The Editor of “The Windmill. ’— 
“ Git up and Foller! “ 
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ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
J. ESTEN COOKE, 
Author of "Hie Virginia Comedians ,” "Dr. Van Dyke," 
"Surry of Eagle's Nest," etc. 
ILLUSTRATED. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
The narrative is ever animated, and here and there touch¬ 
ed with warm, tender, yet natural emotion. — College 
Courant, New Haven, Conn. 
The principal figure of tlie story, the pretty widow Mrs. 
Gaston, is well drawn and attractive, and the author lias 
displayed in the treatment of this character much care and 
ingenuity.— Boston T/'aveller. 
The style of Mr. Cooke’s writings is smootli and fascinat¬ 
ing, and whoever commences the perusal of them will never 
regret the undertaking.— Westfield News Letter. 
A romance with a most delightful complication of matri¬ 
monial purposes, as well as having a villain, forger, gambler 
and detective to assist in the action.— Boston Post. 
The plot of the principal story is finely wrought out, full 
of incident, and there is a sort of fascination about tlie style, 
which claims tlie attention of tlie reader until the close.— 
Salem Gazette. 
A very lively and amusing hook.— Country Gentleman. 
Tlie story is wnitten in popular style—a little plot, a little 
mystery, a little love—and is sure to attract a large number 
of readers— Reading (Pa.) Eagle. 
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NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
A capital picture of Life in Old Virginia before the war is 
to be found in Mr. George Cary Eggleston’s “A Man of 
Honor.” Virginian hospitality, Virginian cousinship, Vir¬ 
ginian housekeeping, are portrayed in accurate and attract¬ 
ive colors. It is a life which tlie author has himself known 
and loved, and lie writes of it with a warmth that comes 
from tlie heart.—A. Y. Evening Post. 
Really readable in the most refreshing sense of tlie term— 
a story of tlie most amusing and attractive interest.— St. 
Louis Times. 
It is written in an off-hand manner, and is bright and 
amusing.— Worcester, (Mass.) Spy. 
With Virginian life as a specialty, Mr. Eggleston has drawn 
a simple, straightforward, truthful, and withal, artistic pic¬ 
ture of Southern society. It is sketchy, perhaps too much 
so, but tlie sketches are all vigorous and show the hand of a 
practiced artist. In forming the characters of liis hook it is 
evident that Mr. Eggleston lias drawn oftener on liis memory 
than on his imagination; that lie has lived among tlie people 
whom lie describes, lias heard them talk, and seen them 
under all the moods of ordinary life.— Boston Daily Adver¬ 
tiser. 
ILLUSTRATIONS.— By M. Woolf. 
“Now I’ve Got You ” (Frontispiece).—Mr. Robert 
Pagebrook was “ Blue.”—“ I Fall at Once into a Chronic 
State of Washing up Things.”—” Foggy.”—Cousin 
Sarah Ann.—The Rivulets of Blue Blood.—Miss Sudie 
Declares Herself “ so Glad.”—“ Let Him Serve it at Once, 
Then.”—“ Very Well, Then.”—“I’m as Proud and as 
Glad as a Boy with Red Morocco Tops to his Boots.” 
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Window Gardening. 
By HENRY T. WILLIAMS, 
EDITOR OF THE LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET, NEW YORK, AND 
HORTICULTURAL EDITOR NEW YORK INDEPENDENT. 
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