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Title: MacMillan's Reading Books
Book V

Author: Anonymous

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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 fr