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To the practical teacher of the deaf and dumb, there may 

 appear shortcomings in this attempt to present a scheme to assist 

 deaf-mute education. I have had no opportunity of putting into 

 practice the system promoted in this paper other than that mentioned, 

 in connection with stenographic classes in a business college. I shall, 

 therefore, cordially welcome advice and assistance from those engaged 

 in deaf-mute instruction, or from any who may take a general or 

 particular interest in the " children of silence." In conclusion let 

 me say it will afford me pleasure to render any information in my 

 power to those who may desire to give the scheme a careful test. 



Note. — Since reading my paper before the Philological Section of the 

 Association, and while these proceedings are in the printers' hands, I re- 

 ceived, through the kindness of Mr. R. Matliison, Superintendent of the 

 Ontario Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Belleville, Ont., to whom I 

 wrote briefly outlining my scheme, a copy of a work by Mr. Edmund Lyon, 

 of Eochester, N. Y., entitled "Lyon's Phonetic Manual," published by the 

 American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. 

 I'rom a hasty examination of what appears to be a most excellent work, I 

 learn that the system is based on the analysis known as " Visible Speech," 

 the invention of Professor Melville Bell. 



