Standard Catholic Readers: Fifth Reader for Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grades (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Standard Catholic Readers: Fifth Reader for Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grades

The selections for the Fifth Book have been chosen with reference both to their elocutionary variety and to their authorship. Although some of them are not generally so well known as others, nevertheless each has a particular value and character of its own, and ought to be familiar to every student. Nearly all of the authors represented have been leaders of thought in their time, and their works include no inconsider able portion of the world's best literature.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.