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The Project Gutenberg EBook of McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Readerby William Holmes McGuffeyThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic ReaderAuthor: William Holmes McGuffeyRelease Date: February 14, 2005 [EBook #15040]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ASCII*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MCGUFFEY'S FIFTH ECLECTIC READER ***Produced by Don KostuchECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES.McGUFFEY'SFIFTH ECLECTIC READER.REVISED EDITION.McGuffey Editions and Colophon are Trademarks ofJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.New York-Chichester-Weinheim-Brisbane-Singapore-TorontoCopyright, 1879, by VAN ANTWERP, BRAGG & CO.Copyright, 1896, by AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.Copyright, 1907 and 1920, by H. H. VAIL.M'G. REV 5TH EC.EP 310PREFACE.The plan of the revision of McGUFFEY'S FIFTH READER is the same as thatpursued in the other books of the REVISED SERIES. The book has beenconsiderably enlarged, but the new pieces have been added or substitutedonly after the most careful consideration, and where the advantages to bederived were assured.
 
It has been the object to obtain as wide a range of leading authors aspossible, to present the best specimens of style, to insure interest inthe subjects, to impart valuable information, and to exert a decided andhealthful moral influence. Thus the essential characteristics ofMcGUFFEY'S READERS have been carefully kept intact.The preliminary exercises have been retained, and are amply sufficient fordrill in articulation, inflection, etc. The additional exercises on thesesubjects, formerly inserted between the lessons, have been omitted to makeroom for other valuable features of the REVISED SERIES.A full understanding of the text is necessary in order to read itproperly. As all the books of reference required for this purpose are notwithin the reach of the majority of pupils, full explanatory notes havebeen given, which, it is believed, will add greatly not only to theinterest of the reading lessons, but also to their usefulness from aninstructive point of view.The definitions of the more difficult words have been given, as formerly;and the pronunciation has been indicated by diacritical marks, inconformity with the preceding books of the REVISED SERIES.Particular attention is invited to the notices of authors. Comparativelyfew pupils have the opportunity of making a separate study of English andAmerican literature, and the carefully prepared notices in the REVISEDSERIES are designed, therefore, to supply as much information in regard tothe leading authors as is possible in the necessarily limited spaceassigned. The publishers have desired to illustrate McGUFFEY'S READERS ina manner worthy of the text and of the high favor in which they are heldthroughout the United States. The most celebrated designers and engraversof the country have been employed for this purpose.It has been the privilege of the publishers to submit the REVISIED SERIESto numerous eminent educators in all parts of the country. To the carefulreviews and criticisms of these gentlemen is due, in a large measure, thepresent form of McGUFFEY'S READERS. The value of these criticisms, comingfrom practical sources of the highest authority, can not well beoverestimated, and the publishers take this occasion to express theirthanks and their indebtedness to all who have thus kindly assisted them inthis work.Especial acknowledgment is due to Messrs. Houghton, Osgood& Co. for their permission to make liberal selections from theircopyright editions of many of the foremost American authorswhose works they publish.CONTENTS.INTRODUCTORY MATTER.SUBJECT.I. PRELIMINARY REMARKSII. ARTICULATIONIII. INFLECTIONSIV. ACCENTV. EMPHASISVI. MODULATION
 
VII. POETIC PAUSESEXERCISESSELECTIONS IN PROSE AND POETRY.TITLE. AUTHOR.1. The Good Reader2. The Bluebell3. The Gentle Hand T. S. Arthur.4. The Grandfather C. G. Eastman.5. A Boy on a Farm C. D. Warner.6. The Singing Lesson Jean Ingelow.7. Do not Meddle8. Work Eliza Cook.9. The Maniac10. Robin Redbreast W. Allingham.11. The Fish I Did n't Catch Whittier.12. It Snows Mrs. S. J. Hale.13. Respect for the Sabbath Rewarded14. The Sands o' Dee Charles Kingsley.15. Select Paragraphs Bible.16. The Corn Song Whittier.17. The Venomous Worm John Russell.18. The Festal Board19. How to Tell Bad News20. The Battle of Blenheim Southey.21. I Pity Them22. An Elegy on Madam Blaize Goldsmith.23. King Charles II. and William Penn Mason L. Weems.24. What I Live For25. The Righteous Never Forsaken26. Abou Ben Adhem Leigh Hunt.27. Lucy Forrester John Wilson.28. The Reaper and the Flowers. Longfellow.29. The Town Pump Hawthorne.30. Good Night Peter Parley.31. An Old-fashioned Girl Louisa M. Alcott.32. My Mother's Hands33. The Discontented Pendulum. Jane Taylor.34. The Death of the Flowers Bryant.35. The Thunderstorm Irving.36. April Day Mrs. C. A. Southey.37. The Tea Rose38. The Cataract of Lodore Southey.39. The Bobolink Irving.40. Robert of Lincoln Bryant.41. Rebellion in Massachusetts State Prison J. T. Buckingham.42. Faithless Nelly Gray Hood.43. The Generous Russian Peasant Nikolai Karamzin.44. Forty Years Ago45. Mrs. Caudle's Lecture Douglas Jerrold.46. The Village Blacksmith Longfellow.47. The Relief of Lucknow "London Times."48. The Snowstorm Thomson.49. Behind Time50. The Old Sampler Mrs. M. E. Sangster.51. The Goodness of God Bible.52. My Mother
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