The Schoolmaster’s Stories by Edward Eggleston
Nov. 2018
A collection of stories that a former schoolmaster used to tell boys and girls over the years, many of them intended for publication earlier but destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871; “books, stereotype plates, and all” as the author describes it in his preface. They were finally rewritten, resubmitted, and published as The Schoolmaster’s Stories in 1874.
Some of the stories are adventure stories intended for boys, some of them are “queer little improbable, unbelievable, half-fairy-story sort of things” intended more for girls, but almost all of them have morals which is always a good thing in stories meant for youngsters; and not totally unexpected since Edward Eggleston (December 10, 1837–September 3, 1902) was a Methodist minister in addition to being a schoolmaster, historian, and novelist.
Some of the stories are adventure stories intended for boys, some of them are “queer little improbable, unbelievable, half-fairy-story sort of things” intended more for girls, but almost all of them have morals which is always a good thing in stories meant for youngsters; and not totally unexpected since Edward Eggleston (December 10, 1837–September 3, 1902) was a Methodist minister in addition to being a schoolmaster, historian, and novelist.