THE FRANKLIN SIXTH READER AND SPEAKER: CONSISTING OF EXTRACTS IN PROSE AND VERSE, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL BY GEORGE S. HILLARD AND HOMER B. SPRAGUE. WITH AN INTRODUCTION ON ELOCUTION, BY PROF. SPRAGUE. WITH NEW AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS. NEW YORK TAINTOR BROTHERS, MERRILL, & CO. BOSTON BREWER AND TILESTON UNIV. OF MINNESOTA LIBRAR! Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, BY GEORGE S. HILLARD, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 10/5/21 2 from Estate Prof, 0. Beal Gift PREFACE. HE Franklin Sixth Reader and Speaker corresponds, in TH the grade of its selections and in many other essential respects, with "Hillard's First Class Reader," of the first series, and "The Sixth Reader" of the one which followed, and is, like those publications, intended for use in high schools, and for the most advanced classes in our public grammar and in private schools. While the main object in its compilation has been to teach the art of good reading, both by furnishing a choice variety of selections best adapted for practice and reading exercises, and by the preparation of the most complete and thorough rhetorical instructions on the part of its authors and compilers, it has also been their design to give to this work somewhat more of an elocutionary character than either of its predecessors. With this view a wide range of selections has been made, in order that the pupil may be trained to give proper form and expression to every variety of style. At the same time, with the view that this compilation may be used with more advantage in rhetorical instruction, it will be found to contain a larger proportion of animated and declamatory selections. The compilers have endeavored to enable their youthful 514669 |