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[Transcriber’s Notes:  Welcome to the schoolroom of 1900.  The moral tone is plain.  “She is kind to the old blind man.”

The exercises are still suitable, and perhaps more helpful than some contemporary alternatives.  Much is left to the teacher.  Explanations given in the text are enough to get started teaching a child to read and write.  Counting in Roman numerals is included as a bonus in the form of lesson numbers.

The form of contractions includes a space.  The contemporary word “don’t” was rendered as “do n’t”.

The author, not listed in the text, is William Holmes McGuffey.

Passages using non-asci characters are approximately rendered in this text version.  See the PDF or Doc versions for the original images.

The section numbers are decimal in the Table of Contents but are in Roman Numerals in the body.

Page headings are removed, but section titles are followed by the page on which they appear.

Many items include a preceding biography of the author.  This is ended with three pound symbols. ###

Don Kostuch
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[Illustration:  Picture of a young woman and a trunk.]

She sits, inclining forward as to speak,
Her lips half-open, and her finger up,
As though she said, “Beware!”

(Item XCV.  Ginevra)

ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES.

McGUFFEY’S SIXTH ECLECTIC READER.

Revised edition.

McGuffey Editions and Colophon are Trademarks of

JOHN WILEY & SONS.  INC.

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Supplementary reading for
grammar and high school grades
Eclectic English classics.

Arnold’s (Matthew) Sohrab and Rustum
Burke’s Conciliation with the American Colonies
Carlyle’s Essay on Burns
Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Defoe’s History of the Plague in London
De Quincey’s Revolt of the Tartars
Emerson’s The American Scholar, Self-Reliance and Compensation
Franklin’s Autobiography
“George Eliot’s” Silas Marner
Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield
Irving’s Sketch Book (Ten Selections)
Irving’s Tales of a Traveler
Macaulay’s Second Essay on Chatham
Macaulay’s Essay on Milton
Macaulay’s Essay on Addison
Macaulay’s Life of Johnson
Milton’s L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus Lycidas,
Milton’s Paradise Lost, Books I and.  II
Pope’s Homer’s Iliad, Books I, VI, XXII, XXIV,
Scott’s Ivanhoe
Scott’s Marmion
Scott’s Lady of the Lake
Scott’s The Abbot
Scott’s Woodstock. 
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night