This textbook is a sixth reader. Selections are taken from English and American literature, and when possible, conform to the original works. Many selections have elocutionary value. In making up the Selections for Reading, great care and deliberation have been exercised. Upwards of one hundred leading authors are represented, and thus a wide range of specimens of the best style has been secured. Two new features of the Revised Sixth deserve especial attention--the explanatory notes, and the biographical notices of authors. Writings by authors such as Edward Everett, John Wilson, Charles Dickens, Patrick Henry, George Arnold, William Shakespeare, Adelaide Anne Procter, Mary Russell Mitford, John Greenleaf Whittier, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Ralph Waldo Emerson are presented.