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Title: The Ontario High School Reader

Author: A.E. Marty

Release Date: September 28, 2007 [EBook #22795]

Language: English

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THE ONTARIO

HIGH SCHOOL READER

BY

A. E. MARTY, M.A.

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, OTTAWA

[Illustration]

Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario
For Use In
Continuation and High Schools and Collegiate Institutes

THE CANADA PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED
TORONTO

Copyright, Canada, 1911, by

The Canada Publishing Company, Limited.

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PREFACE

After communication with many of the teachers who have
been using the Principles and Practice of Oral Reading in their
classes, the author has made a number of important additions and
changes. In its amended form the book is published under the
title of the "Ontario High School Reader."

As the book is intended for the teaching of oral reading it
contains an introductory chapter on the Principles of Reading, and
selections for practice, with appended notes. An effort has also
been made to grade the selections in the order of their difficulty.
Accordingly, a number of selections, each illustrating in a marked
degree only one, or at most two, of the various eleme