[September, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
1872 .] 
w ]Vot Excelled by any 
American Story. 9 ’ 
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 in the fullest sense a powerful novel, and displays an 
originality as rare as it is fascinating.— St. Louis Democrat. 
It is one of the best works of fiction we have read for 
many a day. We knew many of the characters in it, that is, 
we have seen men, women, and children like them. It will 
do.— Central Christian Advocate. 
It Is the best serial we ever remember to have read. 
Except in length and number of characters, it is not behind 
Dickens's masterpiece, “David Copperfield.” It is true to 
nature; nothing is distorted, nothing overdrawn; it has not 
an impossible character in it .— The Commonwealth, Salem, O. 
Though many will view the book from every other stand¬ 
point, we think its greatest charm is in the fact that it brings 
one nearer to Christ. Oh! witli our hand in Shocky's, we 
assure all that are in any doubt that God hasn't forgot, and 
that He never will forget; and though sometimes He chooses 
to lead ns through the night, the way is always heaven¬ 
ward.— Wood’s Household Magazine. 
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 
tlie kind of life he has 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 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 
liis 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 i9 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 
avas more apparent. The characters are clearly drawn; the 
conversation is natural; the whole view of the backwoods 
society is consistent and lifelike.—IF. Y. Independent. 
It might be dramatized so as to make a most effective play. 
There is all the material in the book, and a good deal of the 
work already done to hand.— Newburyport (Mass.) Herald. 
It is published in the neat and attractive form which 
makes all the publications of Orange Judd & Co. such a 
tasty and welcome addition to the library or library table. 
Of the story itself we have had occasion to speak before in 
terms of unqualified admiration.— Kansas Spirit, Lawrence, 
Kansas. 
Mr. Eggleston’s powerful novel, “The Hoosier School- 
Master,” increases in interest as it goes on, and contains 
some characters truly original.— Springfield Republican. 
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BARRY’S 
FRUIT GARDEN. 
By P. BARRY. 
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“Barry's Fruit Garden” is one of those practical, pro¬ 
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