THE

ECLECTIC FOURTH READER:

CONTAINING

ELEGANT EXTRACTS IN PROSE AND POETRY,

FROM THE BEST

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH WRITERS.

WITH

COPIOUS RULES FOR READING,

AND

DIRECTIONS FOR AVOIDING COMMON ERRORS.'

BY WILLIAM H. McGUFFEY,

PRESIDENT OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE-LATE PROFESSOR IN

MIAMI UNIVERSITY, OXFORD.

Enlarged, Improved, and stereotyped.

SIXTH EDITION.

CINCINNATI:

PUBLISHED BY TRUMAN AND SMITH.