. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . at improve-ment of his health. The accounts we have of him show him to have had the ardent and energetic characterwhich belongs to the youth of the West. When not yet nineteenyears old he became a Methodist preacher in that State. Later, illhealth forced him again to Minnesota, where with the enthusiasm ofa young man he traveled on foot, shod in Indian moccasins, in winterand summer preaching to the mixed Indian and white populations onthe Minnesota River. Mr. Egglestons literary career began, while he was still preaching,with cont
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . at improve-ment of his health. The accounts we have of him show him to have had the ardent and energetic characterwhich belongs to the youth of the West. When not yet nineteenyears old he became a Methodist preacher in that State. Later, illhealth forced him again to Minnesota, where with the enthusiasm ofa young man he traveled on foot, shod in Indian moccasins, in winterand summer preaching to the mixed Indian and white populations onthe Minnesota River. Mr. Egglestons literary career began, while he was still preaching,with contributions to Western periodicals. Having written for theNew York Independent, he was offered in 1870 the place of literaryeditor of that paper, and the following year became its editor-in-chief. He was afterwards editor of Hearth and Home, to the columnsof which journal he contributed <The Hoosier Schoolmaster,^ a storythat has been very popular. He wrote a number of other novels, < The Mystery of Metropolisville, < The. Edward Eggleston 52i6 EDWARD EGGLESTON Circuit Rider, ^ <Roxy,^ etc. In January 1880, while on a visit toEurope, he began to make plans for a ^ History of Life in the UnitedStates.^ He had always had a strong taste for this subject, a keennatural interest in history being evident here and there in his historical researches were carried on in many of the chief libra-ries of Europe and the United States. A result of these studies wasthe thirteen articles on ^ Life in the Colonial Period * published in theCentury Magazine. These, however, were but preliminary studies tothe work which he intended should be the most important of his first volume of this work, <The Beginners of a Nation,* was pub-lished in 1896. This work does not pretend to be a particular account of colonialhistory. It is an attempt rather to describe the colonial individualand colonial society, to state the succession of cause and effect in theestablishment of E
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