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Volume XXIII, pages 181-185), so far as proficiency in lip-read- 

 ing 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 Brit- 

 ish Review said of Lowe, "A stranger might exchange several 

 sentences with him before discovering that he is deaf." Dr. 



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H. p. Peet said of him (after an interview), " He certainly uses 

 the English language with an exceptional degree of correct- 

 ness." The Annals gives a glowing account of Lowe's attain- 

 ments, 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 con- 

 nected speech was hard to understand. Lowe, in addition to be- 



