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MACMILLAN'S

READING BOOKS.

Book V.

STANDARD V.

ENGLISH CODE.

_For Ordinary Pass_.

Improved reading, and recitation of not less than seventy-five lines of

poetry.

N.B.--The passages for recitation may be taken from one or more standard

authors, previously approved by the Inspector. Meaning and allusions to

be known, and, if well known, to atone for deficiencies of memory.

_For Special Grant (Art. 19, C. 1)._

Parsing, with analysis of a "simple" sentence.

SCOTCH CODE.

_For Ordinary Pass_.

Reading, with expression, a short passage of prose or of poetry, with

explanation, grammar, and elementary analysis of simple sentences.

Specific Subject--English literature and language, 2nd year. (_Art. 21

and Schedule IV., Scotch Code._)

Three hundred lines of poetry, not before brought up, repeated; with

knowledge of meaning and allusions, and of the derivations of words.

PREFACE TO BOOK V.

This seems a fitting place in which to explain the general aim of

this series of Reading Books. Primarily, it is intended to provide a

systematic course for use in schools which are under State inspection;

and, with this view, each Book in the series, after the Primer, is drawn

up so as to meet the requirements, as set forth in the English and

Scotch codes issued by the Committees of Council on Education, of the

Standard to which it corresponds.

This special adaptation will not, it is hoped, render the series less

useful in other schools. The graduated arrangement of the books,

although, perhaps, one to which every teacher may not choose to conform,

may yet serve as a test by which to compare the attainments of the

pupils in any particular school with those which, according to the

codes, may be taken as the average expected from the pupils in schools

where the Standard examination is, necessarily, enforced.

The general character of the series is literary, and not technical.

Scientific extracts have been avoided. The teaching of special subjects

is separately recognised by the codes, and provided for by the numerous

special handbooks which have been published. The separation of the

reading class from such teaching will prove a gain to both. The former

must aim chiefly at giving to the pupils the power of accurate, and,

if possible, apt and skilful expression; at cultivating in them a good

literary taste, and at arousing a desire of further reading. All

this, it is believed, can best be done where no special or technical

information has to be extracted from the passages read.

In the earlier Books the subject, the language, and the moral are all

as direct and simple as possible. As they advance, the language becomes

rather more intricate, because a studied simplicity, when detected

by the pupil, repels rather than attracts him. The subjects are more

miscellaneous; but still, as far as possible, kept to those which can

appeal to the minds of scholars of eleven or twelve years of age,

without either calling for, or encouraging, precocity. In Books II.,

III., and IV., a few old ballads and other pieces have been purposely

introduced; as nothing so readily expands the mind and lifts it out of

habitual and sluggish modes of thought, as forcing upon the attention

the expressions and the thoughts of an entirely different time.

The last, or Sixth Book, may be thought too advanced for its purpose.

But, in the first place, many of the pieces given in it, though selected

for their special excellence, do not involve any special difficulties;

and, in the second place, it will be seen that the requirements of the

English Code of 1875 in the Sixth Standard really correspond in some

degree to those of the special subject of English literature, formerly

recognised by the English, and still recognised by the Scotch Code.

Besides this, the Sixth Book is intended to supply the needs of pupil

teachers and of higher classes; and to be of interest enough to be read

by the scholar out of school-hours, perhaps even after school is done

with altogether. To such it may supply the bare outlines of English

literature; and may, at least, introduce them to the best English

authors. The aim of all the extracts in the book may not be fully

caught, as their beauty certainly cannot be fully appreciated, by

youths; but they may, at least, serve the purpose of all education--that

of stimulating the pupil to know more.

The editor has to return his thanks for the kindness by which certain

extracts have been placed at his disposal by the following authors

and publishers:--Mr. Ruskin and Mr. William Allingham; Mr. Nimmo (for

extract from Hugh Miller's works); Mr. Nelson (for poems by Mr. and Mrs.

Howitt); Messrs. Edmonston and Douglas (for extract from Dasent's "Tales

from the Norse"); Messrs. Chapman and Hall (for extracts from the works

of Charles Dickens and Mr. Carlyle); Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co.

(for extracts from the works of Macaulay and Mr. Froude); Messrs.

Routledge and Co. (for extracts from Miss Martineau's works); Mr. Murray

(for extracts from the works of Dean Stanley); and many others.

BOOK V.

CONTENTS.

_Prose._

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern

Counties._

THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_

BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_

DR. ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_

BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto]

WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto]

CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_

THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_

LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_

MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_

WHANG THE MILLER [ditto]

AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_

NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto]

LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_

GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY

_Robertson_

A WHALE HUNT _Scott_

A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_

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