22 DECEMBER 1917, Page 11

LT° THE EDITOR OF ran SPECTATOR.") Snt,—I notice one of

your correspondents stoles ElIDE 110 0110 EMI learn lip-reading who is past youth. I should like earnestly In contradict this, from personal knowledge. 1 have reason to know that lip-reading can be acquired by these of any age; and oh

the difference it makes! If the deaf I partially deaf only realised it, they would flock to learn.—I am, Sir, tic.,