[March, 
1872 .] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
THE 
HOOSIER 
SCHOOL-MASTER. 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON. 
Finely Illustrated, with 12 Full-Page 
Engravings on Tinted Paper, 
and Numerous Other 
Cuts. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. • 
It is full of quaint humor, a tender pathos, and vivid de- 
seriptions. — Mete York Standard. 
The “ events "jar? stirring and dramatic, and the style is 
quiet, impersonal, and almost epigrammatic in its ability to 
lay hare an entire situation or character in a sentence or 
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The development of the story is substantially a rude epic 
of truth, gentleness, and true pluck. For the young master, 
younger than most of bis pupils, far more cultivated in 
every direction than any of the population, and practically 
religious, instructs the community as well as the school; 
reclaims some of the worst, foils some, and has some de¬ 
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by a charming orphan, and graduates into a higher position 
with the highest honors. The moral is one of robust man¬ 
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