McGuffey’s Sixth Eclectic Reader

Contents (5)

Introduction

Selections for Reading. (5)

TITLE.	AUTHOR.	PAGE.
1. Anecdote of the Duke of Newcastle	Blackwood’s Magazine.	63
2. The Needle	Samuel Woodworth.	67
3. Dawn	Edward Everett.	68
4. Description of a Storm	Benjamin Disraeli.	70
5. After the Thunderstorm	James Thomson.	72
6. House Cleaning	Francis Hopkinson.	73
7. Schemes of Life often Illusory	Samuel Johnson.	78
8. The Brave Old Oak	Henry Fothergill Chorley.	81
9. The Artist Surprised		82
10. Pictures of Memory	Alice Cary.	88
11. The Morning Oratorio	Wilson Flagg.	90
12. Short Selections in Poetry:

I.	The Cloud		John Wilson.	94
II.	My Mind		William Byrd.	94
III.	A Good Name		William Shakespeare.	95
V.	Sunrise		James Thomson.	95
V.	Old Age and	Death	Edmund Waller.	95
VI.	Milton		John Dryden.	96

Alphabetical List of Authors. (9)

NAME PAGE NAME PAGE 1. ADDISON, JOSEPH 295, 438 38. GOLDSMITH 215 2. ARNOLD. GEORGE 133 39. GRATTAN. HENRY 154 3. ATHERSTONE. EDWIN 401 40. GRAY, THOMAS 108 4. BACON, SIR FRANCIS 332 41. GREELEY, HORACE 398 5. BEECHER, LYMAN 128, 228 42. GREENWOOD, F. W. P. 223 6. BIBLE, THE 160, 189, 420 43. GRIMKE. THOMAS S. 163 7. BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM 410 44. HALLECK. FITZ-GREEN 202 8. BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE 63 45. HAYNE, ROBERT YOUNG 257 9. BROWN, JOHN 417 46. HAZLITT, WILLIAM 278 10. BROWNING, ELIZABETH B. 195 47. HEMANS, FALICIA D. 226 11. BRYANT 141, 275, 434 48. HENRY, PATRICK 115 12. BULWER-LYTTON 334 19. HOLMES 246, 405 13. BURKE, EDMUND 379 50. HOOD, THOMAS 266 14. BYRD, WILLIAM 94 51. HOPKINSON, FRANCIS 73 15. BYRON 205, 408, 415 52. HOWELLS. W. D. 292 16. CALHOUN, JOHN C. 344 53. HOWITT, WILLIAM 132 17. CAMPBELL, THOMAS 211, 396 54. HUNT, LEIGH 321 18. CARY, ALICE 88 55. HUTTON, JOSEPH 161 19. CHANNING, WILLLIAM ELLERY 132 56. IRVING 192, 212, 249 20. CHORLEY, H. F. 81 57. JACKSON, HELEN HUNT 358 21. COLRIDGE. 462 58. JEFFERSON, THOMAS 253 22. COLMAN, GEORGE 303 59. JOHNSON, SAMUEL 78, 130 23. COWPER 310 60. JONES, SIR WILLIAM 255 24. DANA, RICHARD H. JR. 371 61. KENNEDY, JOHN P. 171 25. DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY 131 62. KING, THOMAS STARR 426 26. DEWEY, ORVILLE 389 63. LEE, HENRY 444 27. DICKENS 96, 135 64. LEFEBVRE-LABOULAYE 269 28. DISRAELI, BENJAMIN 70 65. LONGFELLOW 262,290,392,429 29. DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN 119 66. MACAULAY 375 30. DRYDEN 96 67. MACKENZIE. HENRY 218 31. DWIGHT, TIMOTHY 419 68. MILTON 312 32. EMERSON 447 69. MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL 221 33. EVERETT 68 70. NEAL, JOHN 104 34. FIELDS. JAMES T. 301 71. PARKMAN. FRANCIS 325 35. FLAGG, WILSON 90 72. PERCIVAL, J. G 251 36. FOX, CHARLES JAMES 102 73. PHILLIPS. CHARLES 143 37. FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN 431 74. PIERPONT, JOHN 146

	NAME PAGE		NAME PAGE
75.	PITT 152	93.	TAYLOR, B. F, 231
76.	POE, EDGAR ALLAN 382	94.	TENNYSON 347
77.	POPE 451	95.	THACKERAY 435
78,	PORTER, NOAH 457	96.	THOMSON, JAMES 72, 95
79.	PRENTICE, GEO. D. 355	97.	THRALE. HESTER LYNCH 124
80.	PRESCOTT 286	98.	TIMROD, HENRY 456
81.	PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE l78	99.	TOBIN, JOHN 238
82.	READ, T. B. 256	100.	TYNDALL 364
83.	ROGERS, SAMUEL 340	101.	VON HERDER. J. G. 100
84.	RUSKIN, JOHN 131	102.	WALLER, EDMUND 95
85.	SCOTT 156,176,197,350	103.	WALPOLE 151
86.	SHAKESPEARE. 95, 158, 167	104.	WEBSTER 259, 352, 362
	234, 281, 322, 327, 339, 368	105.	WHITNEY, ADELINE D. T. 185
87.	SHERMAN, R. B. 130	106.	WHITTIER 317, 424
88.	SIMMS, WILLIAM GILMORE 453	107.	WILSON, JOHN 94, 180
89.	SPARKS, JARED 440	108.	WINTHROP, R.C. 394
90.	SPRAGUE, CHARLES 209	109.	WIRT, WILLIAM 366
91.	SPRING, GARDINER 186	110.	WOODWORTH, SAMUEL 67
92.	SUMNER 148	111.	WORDSWORTH 440

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. (10)
          Page Drawn by Engraved by

GINEVRA Frontspiece H. F. Farney. Timothy Cole.

DUKE OF NEWCASTLE 65 H. F. Farney. F.Juengling

GRAY’S ELEGY 112 Thomas Moran. Henry Bogert.

MARMION 177 C. S. Reinhart. J. G. Smithwick.

THE QUACK 240 Howard Pyle. J. P. Davis.

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND 272 Alfred Kappes. Timothy Cole.

THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS 321 H. F. Farney. Smithwick and French.

HERCULANEUM 401 Charles D. Sauerwein. Francis S. King.

Introduction. (11)

The subject of Elocution, so far as it is deemed applicable to a work of this kind, will be considered under the following heads, viz:

1. Articulation. 4. Reading Verse. 2. Inflection. 5. The Voice. 3. Accent and Emphasis. 6. Gesture