SUPPLEMENT TO THE FOURTH AND FIFTH READING
BOOKS OF THE AUTHORIZED SERIES.

Authorized

By the Council of Public Instruction
For Ontario.

TORONTO:

JAMES CAMPBELL & SON,
1871.

Entered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, by the Reverend EGERTON RYERSON, LL.D., Chief Superintendent of Education for Ontario, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.

INTRODUCTION.

THE following pages contain a selection of extracts intended
to be used as a sequel to the Fourth or Fifth Book of Reading
Lessons authorized by the Council of Public Instruction for
Ontario, or in some cases as a substitute for them. In this as
in the preceding volumes of the series, specimens are given of
the best authors in English literature, but many additional
writers of high reputation are here introduced. With a view
to the wants of those students who desire to ascend to the
sources, an Appendix is subjoined, illustrating the origin and
progress of the Language.

EDUCATION OFFICE,
TORONTO, October, 1871.

7 May 1944