McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader

Transcriber’s Notes
Welcome to the schoolroom of 1900. The moral tone is plain. She is kind to the old blind man.
The exercises are still suitable, and perhaps more helpful than some contemporary alternatives. Much is left to the teacher. Explanations given in the text are enough to get started teaching a child to read and write. Counting in Roman numerals is included as a bonus in the form of lesson numbers.
The author, not listed in the text is William Holmes McGuffey.
Don Kostuch
ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES.
MCGUFFEY'S SECOND ECLECTIC READER.
REVISED EDITION.
McGuffey Editions and Colophon are Trademarks of JOHN WILEY & SONS, Inc. New York - Chichester-Weinheim-Brisbane-Singapore-Toronto
Copyright, 1879, by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. Copyright, 1896, by American Book Company Copyright, 1907 and 1920, by H. H. Vail. EP316
In this book, as well as in the others of the Revised Series, most of the favorite drill selections, which constituted one of the leading excellences of MCGUFFEY'S READERS, have been retained. New selections have been inserted only when they seemed manifest improvements on those formerly used.
The plan of this Reader is a continuation and extension of that pursued in the First Reader.