美国语文读本6

　　LESSON 1 ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE
　　LESSON 2 THE NEEDLE
　　LESSON 3 DAWN
　　LESSON 4 DESCRIPTION OF A STORM
　　LESSON 5 AFTER THE THUNDERSTORM
　　LESSON 6 HOUSE CLEANING
　　LESSON 7 SCHEMES OF LIFE OFTEN ILLUSORY
　　LESSON 8 THE BRAVE OLD OAK
　　LESSON 9 THE ARTIST SURPRISED
　　LESSON 10 PICTURES OF MEMORY
　　LESSON 11 THE MORNING ORATORIO
　　LESSON 12 SHORT SELECTIONS IN POETRY
　　LESSON 13 DEATH OF LITTLE NELL
　　LESSON 14 VANITY OF LIFE
　　LESSON 15 A POLITICAL PAUSE
　　LESSON 16 MY EXPERIENCE IN ELOCUTION
　　LESSON 17 ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD
　　LESSON 18 TACT AND TALENT
　　LESSON 19 SPEECH BEFORE THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION
　　LESSON 20 THE AMERICAN FLAG
　　LESSON 21 IRONICAL EULOGY ON DEBT
　　LESSON 22 THE THREE WARNINGS
　　LESSON 23 THE MEMORY OF OUR FATHERS
　　LESSON 24 SHORT SELECTIONS IN PROSE
　　LESSON 25 THE JOLLY OLD PEDAGOGUE
　　LESSON 26 THE TEACHER AND SICK SCHOLAR
　　LESSON 27 THE SNOW SHOWER
　　LESSON 28 CHARACTER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
　　LESSON 29 NAPOLEON AT REST
　　LESSON 30 WAR
　　LESSON 31 SPEECH OF WALPOLE IN REPROOF OF MR. PITT
　　LESSON 32 PITT’S REPLY TO SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
　　LESSON 33 CHARACTER OF MR. PITT
　　LESSON 34 THE SOLDIER’S REST
　　LESSON 35 HENRY V. TO HIS TROOPS
　　LESSON 36 SPEECH OF PAUL ON MARS HILL
　　LESSON 37 GOD IS EVERYWHERE
　　LESSON 38 LAFAYETTE AND ROBERT RAIKES
　　LESSON 39 FALL OF CARDINAL WOLSEY
　　LESSON 40 THE PHILOSOPHER
　　LESSON 41 MARMION AND DOUGLAS
　　LESSON 42 THE PRESENT
　　LESSON 43 THE BAPTISM
　　LESSON 44 SPARROWS
　　LESSON 45 OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH
　　LESSON 46 GOD’S GOODNESS TO SUCH AS FEAR HIM
　　LESSON 47 CHARACTER OF COLUMBUS
　　LESSON 48 “HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP”
　　LESSON 49 DESCRIPTION OF A SIEGE
　　LESSON 50 MARCO BOZZARIS
　　LESSON 51 SONG OF THE GREEK BARD
　　LESSON 52 NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
　　LESSON 53 LOCHIEL’S WARNING
　　LESSON 54 ON HAPPINESS OF TEMPER
　　LESSON 55 THE FORTUNE TELLER
　　LESSON 56 RIENZI’S ADDRESS TO THE ROMANS
　　LESSON 57 CHARACTER OF THE PURITAN FATHERS OFNEW ENGLAND
　　LESSON 58 LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS
　　LESSON 59 NECESSITY OF EDUCATION
　　LESSON 60 RIDING ON A SNOWPLOW
　　LESSON 61 THE QUARREL OF BRUTUS AND CASSIUS
　　LESSON 62 THE QUACK
　　LESSON 63 RIP VAN WINKLE
　　LESSON 64 BILL AND JOE
　　LESSON 65 SORROW FOR THE DEAD
　　LESSON 66 THE EAGLE
　　LESSON 67 POLITICAL TOLERATION
　　LESSON 68 WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE?
　　LESSON 69 THE BRAVE AT HOME
　　LESSON 70 SOUTH CAROLINA
　　LESSON 71 MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTH CAROLINA
　　LESSON 72 THE CHURCH SCENE FROM EVANGELINE
　　LESSON 73 SONG OF THE SHIRT
　　LESSON 74 DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND
　　LESSON 75 THANATOPSIS
　　LESSON 76 INDIAN JUGGLERS
　　LESSON 77 ANTONY OVER CAESAR’S DEAD BODY
　　LESSON 78 THE ENGLISH CHARACTER
　　LESSON 79 THE SONG OF THE POTTER
　　LESSON 80 A HOT DAY IN NEW YORK
　　LESSON 81 DISCONTENT.—AN ALLEGORY
　　LESSON 82 JUPITER AND TEN
　　LESSON 83 SCENE FROM “THE POOR GENTLEMAN”
　　LESSON 84 MY MOTHER’S PICTURE
　　LESSON 85 DEATH OF SAMSON
　　LESSON 86 AN EVENING ADVENTURE
　　LESSON 87 THE BAREFOOT BOY
　　LESSON 88 THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS
　　LESSON 89 THE FOLLY OF INTOXICATION
　　LESSON 90 STARVED ROCK
　　LESSON 91 PRINCE HENRY AND FALSTAFF
　　LESSON 92 STUDIES
　　LESSON 93 SURRENDER OF GRANADA
　　LESSON 94 HAMLET’S SOLILOQUY
　　LESSON 95 GINEVRA
　　LESSON 96 INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES
　　LESSON 97 ENOCH ARDEN AT THE WINDOW
　　LESSON 98 LOCHINVAR
　　LESSON 99 SPEECH ON THE TRIAL OF A MURDERER
　　LESSON 100 THE CLOSING YEAR
　　LESSON 101 A NEW CITY IN COLORADO
　　LESSON 102 IMPORTANCE OF THE UNION
　　LESSON 103 THE INFLUENCES OF THE SUN
　　LESSON 104 COLLOQUIAL POWERS OF FRANKLIN
　　LESSON 105 THE DREAM OF CLARENCE
　　LESSON 106 HOMEWARD BOUND
　　LESSON 107 IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS
　　LESSON 108 DESTRUCTION OF THE CARNATIC
　　LESSON 109 THE RAVEN
　　LESSON 110 A VIEW OF THE COLOSSEUM
　　LESSON 111 THE BRIDGE
　　LESSON 112 OBJECTS AND LIMITS OF SCIENCE
　　LESSON 113 THE DOWNFALL OF POLAND
　　LESSON 114 LABOR
　　LESSON 115 THE LAST DAYS OF HERCULANEUM
　　LESSON 116 HOW MEN REASON
　　LESSON 117 THUNDERSTORM ON THE ALPS
　　LESSON 118 ORIGIN OF PROPERTY
　　LESSON 119 BATTLE OF WATERLOO
　　LESSON 120 “WITH BRAINS, SIR”
　　LESSON 121 THE NEW ENGLAND PASTOR
　　LESSON 122 DEATH OF ABSALOM
　　LESSON 123 ABRAHAM DAVENPORT
　　LESSON 124 THE FALLS OF THE YOSEMITE
　　LESSON 125 A PSALM OF LIFE
　　LESSON 126 FRANKLIN’S ENTRY INTO PHILADELPHIA
　　LESSON 127 LINES TO A WATERFOWL
　　LESSON 128 GOLDSMITH AND ADDISON
　　LESSON 129 IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL
　　LESSON 130 CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON
　　LESSON 131 EULOGY ON WASHINGTON
　　LESSON 132 THE SOLITARY REAPER
　　LESSON 133 VALUE OF THE PRESENT
　　LESSON 134 HAPPINESS
　　LESSON 135 MARION
　　LESSON 136 A COMMON THOUGHT
　　LESSON 137 A DEFINITE AIM IN READING
　　LESSON 138 ODE TO MT. BLANC

　　威廉·H·麦加菲，美国著名教育家。1800年出生于宾夕法尼亚州，1826年毕业于华盛顿大学杰斐逊学院。在数十年教育生涯中，他曾担任过迈阿密大学语言学教授，俄亥俄大学校长。自1845年开始任弗吉尼亚大学道德哲学教授。他还帮助组建了俄亥俄州公立学校体系。
　　早在19世纪初期，麦加菲就意识到，应该给那些孤独的垦荒者和欧洲移民的后代提供普遍的教育，于是他利用自己作为演讲家与教育工作者的天赋，开始为孩子们编写系列教材。这套教材共7册，从学龄前至第6年级。他前后花费了20多年的时间才完成全套教材的编写。这套教材面世后就被美国很多学校选为课本。在75年间销量高达1.22亿，直到今天仍以各种版本流行于西方，被美国《出版周刊》评为“人类出版史上第三大畅销书”，对美国青年的心灵塑造与道德培养产生了史无前例的影响。
　　William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 – May 4, 1873) was an American professor and college president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, one of the nation's first and most widely used series of textbooks. It is estimated that at least 122 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.
　　He was born the son of Alexander and Anna (Holmes) McGuffey near Claysville in Washington County, Pennsylvania, which is 45 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. In 1802 the McGuffey family moved further out into the frontier at Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He attended country school, and after receiving special instruction at Youngstown, he attended Greersburg Academy in Darlington, Pennsylvania. Afterwards, he attended and graduated from Pennsylvania's Washington College, where he became an instructor.
　　He was close friends with Washington College's President Andrew Wylie and lived in Wylie's house for a time; they often would walk the 3 miles to Washington College together.
　　McGuffey's house in OxfordMcGuffey left Washington College in 1826 to become a professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. A year later in 1827, he was married to Harriet Spinning of Dayton, Ohio, with whom he had five children. In 1829, he was ordained at Bethel Chapel as a minister in the Presbyterian Church. It was in Oxford that he created the most important contribution of his life: The McGuffey Readers. His books sold over 122 million copies. He was very fond of teaching and children as he geared the books toward a younger audience.
　　In 1836, he left Miami to become president of Cincinnati College, where he also served as a distinguished teacher and lecturer. He left Cincinnati in 1839 to become the 4th president of Ohio University, which he left in 1843 to become president of Woodward College (really a secondary school) in Cincinnati.
　　In 1845, McGuffey moved to Charlottesville, Virginia where he became Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. A year after his first wife Harriet died in 1850, he married Miss Laura Howard, daughter of Dean Howard of the University of Virginia, in 1851. McGuffey is buried in the university burial ground, in Charlottesville, Virginia. The School of Education at Miami University is housed in McGuffey Hall which is named for him and his home in Oxford is a National Historic Landmark offering tours on weekdays.

　　《美国语文读本6（美国原版经典语文课本）》：这套读本的英文原版共分七级，包括启蒙读本和第1-6级。考虑到启蒙读本与第一级篇幅都较少，难易程度也很接近，于是将之合并为第1册，其余2-6级与英文原版相同。这样国内出版的这套读本共包括6册。
　　 　　《美国语文读本6（美国原版经典语文课本）》引用了莎士比亚、朗费罗、狄更斯、艾迪生等名家名篇，通过一篇篇短小精悍的故事，将道德教育的内容倾注于作品之中，让孩子在欣赏这些优美文章的同时，从中感受到道德教育的力量。
　　 　　This series of schoolbooks teaching reading and moral precepts originally prepared by William Holmes who was a professor at Miami University McGuffey had a profound influence on public education in the United States. The eclectic readers meaning that the selections were chosen from a number of sources were considered remarkably literary works and probably exerted a greater influence upon literary tastes in the United States more than any other book excluding the Bible.
　　 　　It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960 placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. Since 1961 they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30000 copies a year. No other textbook bearing a single person's name has come close to that mark. McGuffey's Readers are still in use today in some school systems and by parents for home schooling purposes.
　　 　　In the sixth and final reader of 1885 there were 186 selections 111 great authors were quoted such as Shakespeare Longfellow Dickens and Addison. The theme of the selections included several forms of composition description narration argumentation and exposition. In this book there were also seventeen selections from the Bible.