[December, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
15 th Thousand. 
THE 
HOOSSER 
SCHOOL-MASTER. 
By EDWARD EGGLE3T0H. 
Finely Illustrated, with 12 Full-Page 
Engravings, and numerous Other 
Cuts. 
EIRE AND BRIMSTONE. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
More than one ‘ Yankee school-marm” now laboring in 
tlio West will both smile and weep over scenes which find 
tlicir counterpart in tlicir own d uly experience. There is 
no exaggeration in style or incident: indeed, the book 
should be many times larger cro Edward Eggleston laid 
aside a pen which had told but half the joys or trials which 
await a Moosicr school-master. This is one of those books 
that- will live, and future years will give the story an added 
cliann 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 touch 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, liutli the good and the had ; but 
that it is a past or passing state of things is sufficiently 
testified by the fact, lo which Mr. Eggleston alludes in his 
preface, that the story, as it appeared serially, was nowhere 
more popular than in Southern Indiana. Flat Creek. 
Hoopolo County, would not, we imagine, have been so avell 
pleased thirty years ago with a portrait which, at any rate, 
Is not flattered .—Atlantic Month!//. 
Eggleston’s “ Hoosier School-Master” is full of rich and 
racy humor, and makes us regret that its author lias turned 
Ills hack 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 pinup in vain for tears.— Golden Age, X.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 his mind by its social peculiarities remains 
to this day perfectly distinct and legible. Indeed, wo have 
rarely read any story whose truthfulness as 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.— F. Y. Independent. 
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The Great New Story, 
The End of the 
World. 
A LOVE STORY. 
By EDWARD EGGLESTON, 
Author of “The Booster School-Master 
WITH 
Thirty-two Fine Illustrations. 
NOTICES BY" THE PRESS. 
Dr. Eggleston’s new story is the best he has written. 
“ Tho Hoosier School-Master” was good, but The End 
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of the sexes in a perfectly normal way.When 
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Tho personages who figure in this story arc, with one 
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