PREFACE
This volume is designed for advanced classes in reading.
It is adapted to this purpose by the following characteristics:
1. There is great variety in style and subjects.
2. The exercises are of a highly elevated character.
3. There is an exclusion of all collateral matter, such as Rhetorical Rules and Notation, Exercises in Articulation, Definition, &c., &c., which have been so extensively treated of in the other volumes of this series as to render further instruction unnecessary.
This book is thus adapted to general practice in reading, and with the preceding volumes of this series or any other of similar character, will furnish an abundant amount of matter for a thorough course in this department.
It is presented to the public with the hope that it may receive that favor which has been so liberally awarded to the other volumes of the Eclectic Series.