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,