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.
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Helen Keller and her Teacher.
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 be-