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Previous to the Franco-German War, Mr Liebreich, a celebrated oculist and practical friend of the blind, by order of the empress of the French, prepared a report in regard to the Institution Imperiale dcs jeunes Aveugles of Paris, in which he says that the institution—

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The institutions of America are not asylums, but in the truest sense of the word educational establishments, in which the blind, without regard to their future, receive a thorough education. The blind in the United States are socially far above those of any other country ; large numbers of them become eminent scholars and musicians, and even their blind workmen enjoy a degree of comfort unknown in England or on the Continent. The results achieved by the Perkins Institution at Boston, U.S., are particularly instructive. High-class musical training appears to have been commenced there about 13 years ago, previous to which time the results in this respect were far from being satisfactory. The report of 1SG7 states that music is now taught to all of both sexes whose natural abilities make it probable that under proper 