THE

NATIONAL

FIFTH READER:

CONTAINING

A COMPLETE AND PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON ELOCUTION;

SELECT AND CLASSIFIED EXERCISES IN READING AND
DECLAMATION; WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES,

AND COPIOUS NOTES: ADAPTED TO THE USE
OF STUDENTS IN LITERATURE.

BY RICHARD GREENE PARKER,

AND

J. MADISON WATSON.

DEPARTMENT.OF EDUCATION

LELAND STANFORD UNIOR UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY A. S. BARNES & CO.,
111 & 113 WILLIAM ST., CORNER OF JOHN.

•F THE

Y. UNIVERSITY.

20 1900

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PARKER & WATSON'S NEW READERS.

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The Old Editions may still be had upon application to the Publishers, but it is believed that teachers will find it to their interest to introduce the New at once.

A. S. BARNES & Co., Publishers.

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By A. S. BARNES & Co.,

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