McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book

Since 1836 children have been delighted by the McGuffey Readers exotic adventures exciting stories beautiful poems and funny fables. This companion volume was revised in 1879 to conform in orthography pronunciation and spelling to the latest edition of Websters Unabridged Dictionary. The Eclectic Spelling-Book was designed to teach students the English language not by appealing merely to memory but by associating each lesson with some principle of sound meaning or accent.