SANDERS' UNION FOURTH READER:

EMBRACING A FULL EXPOSITION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF RHETORICAL READING;

WITH NUMEROUS EXERCISES FOR PRACTICE,

BOTH IN PROSE AND POETRY, VARIOUS IN STYLE, AND CAREFULLY ADAPTED TO THE
PURPOSES OF TEACHING IN SCHOOLS OF EVERY GRADE.

BY CHARLES W. SANDERS, A.M.




PREFACE.

THIS FOURTH READER is designed to pass the pupil from the comparatively
easy ground occupied by the THIRD to the more difficult course embraced
in THE UNION FIFTH READER, which is next higher in the series. It is,
therefore, carefully graded to this intermediate position.

In one sense, however, it is the most important in the set; since the
great mass of pupils, in our common schools, are drawn away from
scholastic pursuits long before the proper time for entering upon any
course of reading more advanced than that which is here presented. This
consideration has had its full weight in the preparation of the
following pages.

Every exercise will be found to bear the impress of that special
adaptation to the purposes of teaching, without which no book of this