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THE ONTARIO READERS

FOURTH BOOK

AUTHORIZED BY

THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION

Entered, according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1909,
in the office of the Minister of Agriculture by the
Minister of Education for Ontario

TORONTO:

The T. EATON Co Limited

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Minister of Education is indebted to Goldwin Smith, Rudyard Kipling,Henry Newbolt, The Earl of Dunraven, Sir W. F. Butler, Frank T. Bullen,Charles G. D. Roberts, W. Wilfred Campbell, Frederick George Scott,Agnes Maule Machar, Agnes C. Laut, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, and S. T.Wood, for special permission to reproduce, in this Reader, selectionsfrom their writings.

He is indebted to Lord Tennyson for special permission to reproduce thepoems from the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson; to Lloyd Osbourne forpermission to reproduce the extract from Robert Louis Stevenson's"Kidnapped"; and to C. Egerton Ryerson for permission to reproduce theextract from Egerton Ryerson's "The Loyalists of America and theirTimes."

He is also indebted to Macmillan & Co., Limited, for special permissionto reproduce selected poems from the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson,Rudyard Kipling, Sir F. H. Doyle, Cecil Frances Alexander; to Longmans,Green & Co., for the selections from Froude's "Short Studies on GreatSubjects" and from his "History of England"; to Smith, Elder & Co., forthe extract from F. T. Bullen's "The Cruise of the Cachalot"; to ElkinMathews for Henry Newbolt's poem from "The Island Race"; to ThomasNelson & Sons for the extract from W. F. Collier's "History of theBritish Empire"; to The Copp Clark Co., Limited, for selected poems fromthe works of Charles G. D. Roberts, and of Agnes Maule Machar; to theHunter-Rose Company for the extract from Canniff Haight's "Country Lifein Canada"; to Morang & Company for selected poems from the works ofArchibald Lampman, and for the extract from Roberts' "History ofCanada"; and to Houghton Mifflin Company for the article from "TheAtlantic Monthly" on "British Colonial and Naval Power."

The Minister is grateful to these authors and publishers and to others,not mentioned here, through whose courtesy he has been able to includein this Reader so many copyright selections.

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