The Madonna of the Chair
Painting by Raphael
EIGHT BOOK SERIES
STANDARD
CATHOLIC READERS
BY GRADES
FIFTH YEAR
BY
MARY E. DOYLE
FORMERLY PRINCIPAL OF HOLY NAMES NORMAL SCHOOL,
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, AND SUPERVISOR OF TEACHING,
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN
NEW YORK ⁘ CINCINNATI ⁘ CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
Copyright, 1909, 1913, by
MARY E. DOYLE.
Stand. Cath. Readers by Grades.
5th Year.
E. P. 6
PREFACE
The selections in this reader for the Fifth Yearwere chosen with reference both to their intrinsicliterary quality and to the varying capabilities of thepupils who will read them. It is confidently hopedthat they will reach some interest of each child, and,at the same time, help to form a correct literarystandard and encourage a taste for the best reading.
In the preparation of this series of readers, valuablecounsel and assistance have been given me by manyfriendly educators and those in authority. I amespecially grateful to the Rt. Rev. John LancasterSpalding of Peoria for helpful advice and encouragementin the planning and inception of the work;also, to the Rt. Rev. James McGolrick of Duluth,Minnesota, to the Rt. Rev. A. F. Schinner of Superior,Wisconsin, and to other prelates and clergy whohave graciously given me assistance in various ways.Many thanks, too, for kindly suggestions and criticismsare hereby proffered to numerous friends amongthose patient and inspiring educators—the Sisters.
MARY E. DOYLE.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The selections from Whittier, Longfellow. Lowell, MiriamColes Harris, and John Burroughs are used by special permissionof, and arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, thepublishers of the works of these authors. The selections fromHelen Hunt Jackson are used by special arrangement withLittle, Brown, & Company. Acknowledgments for the use ofcopyright material are also made: to Small, Maynard & Companyfor the poems by Father Tabb; to the editor and publisherof The Ave Maria for “Lucy’s Rosary,” by J. R. Marre,and other poems from that magazine; to Mary F. Nixon-Rouletfor the selections of which she is the author; to Longmans,Green, & Company, for “The Reindeer,” by Andrew Lang; toHenry Coyle for the poems of which he is the author; and tothe Congregation of the Mission of St Vincent de Paul, Springfield,Mass., for the extract from Mother Mary Loyola’s “Jesusof Nazareth,” of which book they are the publishers.