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Rh Volume XXIII, pages 181-185), so far as proficiency in lip-reading is concerned, or, for that matter, for many other reasons. Then there is the case of the English barrister Lowe, the most learned congenital deaf-mute on record. He was a pupil of the first Watson (who taught by the oral method without recourse to signs, but used the two-handed alphabet). The North British Review said of Lowe, "A stranger might exchange several sentences with him before discovering that he is deaf." Dr.



H. P. Peet said of him (after an interview), "He certainly uses the English language with an exceptional degree of correctness." The Annals gives a glowing account of Lowe's attainments, in Volume XXII, pages 36-40, abridged from an article in Smith's Magazine, but is silent as to his attainments in speech and lip-reading. Dr. H. P. Peet, in his Tour, says his voice was guttural, and single words were intelligible, though his connected speech was hard to understand. Lowe, in addition to