McGuffey's New Fifth Eclectic Reader: Selected and Original Exercises for Schools

McGuffey's Primer #5

by William Holmes McGuffey

Excerpt from McGuffey's New Fifth Eclectic Reader: Selected and Original Exercises for Schools

From no source has the author drawn more copiously in his selections, than from the Sacred Scriptures. For this, he certainly apprehends no censure. In a Christian country, that man is to be pitied, who, at this day, can honestly object to imbuing the minds of youth with the language and spirit of the Word of God.

The student of the Bible will, it is believed, be pleased to find a specimen of the ele gant labors of Bishop Jebb, and some specimens of sacred poetry, as arranged by Dr.

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Genres: Classics, Nonfiction, Childrens, Education

350 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1857

About the author

William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 – May 4, 1873) was an American professor and college president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, one of the nation's first and most widely used series of textbooks. It is estimated that at least 122 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.

Reviews

[Laurel]

My maternal grandmother was born in 1885 and at age 14 graduated from 8th grade, and passed her teachers test. She began teaching at age 14 in a one room school house. I somehow have some of her old school books, and this is one of them. I was surprised at the level of difficulty in the reading. I read excerpts from some "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, and "Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens, a lot of flowery poetry etc. I did enjoy seeing what was expected of children of another era. Many of the stories had a moral theme and there were several excerpts from the Bible. The print size is very small--with very few illustrations. I did enjoy seeing what was expected of children of another era. School teachers would enjoy this.

[Cristina]

i really like the beautiful sentences used in the book the words are nicely placed in each sentience's and they have the most nice and interesting stories to read about my favorite story is My Mother's Bible. in all i think this book i joyful to read and i think everyone who likes the McGuffey's readers should really read this if they have not i give this book a big round of applause.

[Jenn]

Once again, I enjoyed the selection that this book offered especially when I might not choose to read a certain genre.

[Quaid Barnett]

Lickable
(:
:D

[Willow]

I did not like this book. Some of the stories were good, but a lot of them were boring and depressing.

[Shannon]

This is where the readers started to get boring. :(

[Jonathan]

I'm into this historic reading thing this year, I guess. There is a lot of really cool stuff in these books, although some might call it hokey. Some of it is hokey, but not all of it.