1873.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
75 
21st Thousand. 
, THE 
HOOSIER 
SCHOOL- MASTER. 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON. 
Finely Illustrated, with 12 Full-Page 
Engravings, and Numerous Other 
Cuts. 
FIRE AND BRIMSTONE. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
More tlian one “Yankee school-marm” now laboring in 
the West will both smile and weep over scenes which iincl 
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 whicli 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 the 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 toucli in fiction 
the kind of life he lias 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 lias 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 pump 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 liis mind by its social peculiarities remains 
to this day perfectly distinct and legible. Indeed, wc have 
rarely read any story whose truthfulness us a picture of life 
was more apparent. The characters are clearly drawn ; the 
conversation is natural; the whole view of the backwoods 
society is consistent and lifelike.— N. Y. Independent. 
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A LOVE STORY. 
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By EDWARD EGGLESTON, 
Author of “ The Hoosier School-Master." 
WITH 
Thirty-two Fine Illustrations. 
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