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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[April, 
NEW AMERICAN FARM BOOK. 
Originally by RICHARD L. ALLRN. 
Revised and greatly enlarged 
By IiEH'IS F. ALLEN, 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $2.50. 
Allen’s American Farm Book lias been one of the standard 
farmers’ hand-books for twenty years; It is still a valuable 
book,but not up to the times; and as its author.Mr.R.L. Allen, 
could not give time to its revision, this was undertaken by 
his brother, Hon. Lewis F. Allen, the distinguished farmer 
of Erie county, editor of the American Shorthorn Herd- 
Book. The work is greatly enlarged, and full of suggestions 
from tiie rich experience of its editor and reviser, and is 
called the New American Farm Book. 
AMERICAN CATTLE. 
Their History, Breeding, and Management. 
By LEWIS F. ALLEN. 
ILLUSTRATED. PRICE, POST-PAID, $2.50. 
This book will be considered indispensable by every 
breeder of live-stock. The large experience of the author 
in Improving the character of American herds adds to the 
weight of his observations, and has enabled him to produce 
a work which will at once make good its claims as a stand¬ 
ard authority on the subject. An excellent feature of the 
volume is its orderly, methodical arrangement, condensing 
a great variety of information into a comparatively small 
compass, and enabling the reader to And the point on which 
he is seeking light, without wasting his time in turning over 
the leaves. 
Herbert’s Hints to Horse-Keepers. 
By the late HENRY WILLIAW HEStBEMT, 
(FRANK FORESTER.) 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $1.75. 
A complete manual for Horsemen, embracing: How to 
Breed a Horse: How to Buy a Horse; How to Break a 
Horse; How to Use a Horse; How to Feed a Horse: How 
to Physic a Horse; How to Drive a Horse; Ponies—Different, 
Breeds; Farriery; How to Shoe a norse; Handler's 
Method of Training; Howto Ride a Horse ; Ladles Riding; 
Raiey’s System of IIorse-Tamiug; etc.; and a chapter on 
Mules and Ponies, etc. Beautifully Illustrated. 
HARBIS OM THE PIG. 
Breeding, Bearing, Management, and Improvement. 
With numerous Illustrations. 
By JOSEPH HARBIS. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $1.50. 
This is the only American treatise upon the breeding, 
rearing, and management of swine, and is by one thorough¬ 
ly familiar with the whole subject. The points of the various 
English and American breeds are thoroughly discussed, and 
the great advantage of using thorough-bred males clearly 
shown. The work is equally valuable to the farmer who 
keeps but few pigs, and to the breeder on an extensive scale. 
Farm Implements and Machinery, 
The principles of their constniction and use; with 
simple and practical explanations of the laws of 
motion and force as applied on the farm. 
By JOHN 3. THOMAS. 
237 ILLUSTRATIONS. PRICE, POST-PAID. $1.50. 
The basis of this admirable work was an essay published 
in 1350, in the Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural 
Society, which was enlarged, and in 1854 published by the 
Harpers. It has been, and remains, the only work in which 
the principles of Natural Philosophy, namely, the mechan¬ 
ical powers, and the powers of water, wind, and heat, arc 
systematically discussed as applied to the operations of the 
farm. This work has now been most carefully revised by 
the author. It is much enlarged, and a great part has been 
re-written, while the Illustrations, before abundant, now 
number two hundred and eighty-seven. There is not an agri¬ 
cultural writer that could be named more respected than 
John J. Thomas, or one whose judgment and freedom from 
personal bias in discussing new implements could be more 
implicitly relied upon. 
PEACH CULTURE. 
By JAMES ALEXANDER FULTON. 
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Among the fruits, the Peach, if not the most, is one of the 
most important of all. It is so easily raised, comes into 
bearing so soon, and is so delicious as well as beautiful, it 
Is impossible that it should not lie. a favorite. Living in the 
very center of the peach-growing district; sharing the com¬ 
mon Interest felt In the subject; deeply Impressed with Its 
importance to the individual planters themselves, and also 
to the community at large; and believing that a lasting bene¬ 
fit could be done to both, the author lias been Induced to 
prepare this work on peach culture. 
Either of the above books sent post-paid on receipt of 
price by 
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246 Broadway, New York, 
23 d Thousand. 
THE 
HOOSIER 
SCH00L-MASTEE. 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON. 
Finely Illustrated, with 12 Full-Page 
Engravings, and Numerous Other 
Cuts. 
“Jim Phillips was a tall, 
lank, stoop-shouldered fellow, 
who had never distinguished 
himself in any other pursuit 
than spelling. Except in this 
one art of spelling he was of 
no account. He could not 
catch well or bat well in ball. 
He could not throw well 
enough to make his mark in 
that famous Western game of 
bull-pen. He did not succeed 
well in any study but that of 
■Webster’s Elementary. But 
in that he was—to use the 
usual Flat Creek locution—in 
that lie was ‘ a boss.’ . . . Bud 
Means, foreseeing that Ralph 
would be pitted against Jim 
Phillips, had warned liis friend 
that Jim could ‘spell like 
thunder and lightning,’ and 
that it ‘ took a powerful smart 
speller ’ to heat him, for he 
knew 1 a heap of spelling- 
book.’ To have‘spelled down 
the master' is next thing to 
having whipped the biggest 
bully in Hoopole County, and 
Jim had ‘spelled down’ the 
last three masters. He divided 
the hero-worship of the dis¬ 
trict with Bud Means.” 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
More than 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 tokl 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 tame.—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 
tiie kind of life lie has represented, and wc imagine that 
future observers will hardly touch it in more points. Its 
traits seem to be all here, both the good and the bad ; 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 tiie pulpit, in which wit is needed quite as much 
as wisdom, and tiie 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 ns a boy in this region (Southern In¬ 
diana), and tills book is a faithful witness that the impres¬ 
sion made upon ids 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 are clearly drawn ; the 
conversation is natural; t.lie whole view of the backwoods 
society is consistent and lifelike.—iV". Y. Independent. 
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ORANGE JUDD AND COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
16tli Thousand. 
The End of the 
World. 
A LOYE STORY. 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON, 
Author of “The Hoosier School-Master 
WITH 
Thirty-two Fine Illustrations. 
I WANT TO BUY YOUR PLACE.” 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
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 hut 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 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 has been in the company of very inter¬ 
esting men and women, and has made a number of new 
and valuable acquaintances.— The Albion , New York. 
Dr. Eggleston’s new story is the best he has written. 
“ The Hoosier School-Master” was good, hut 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 
book 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 hooks that the 
people will he sure to read, and they will find in it a 
perfectly innocent and healthy enjoyment.— The Inde¬ 
pendent. 
Price, Post-paid, $1.50. 
ORANGE JUDD AND COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
