12 JULY 1902, Page 23

Practice/ Lip - Beading. By E. F. Boultbee. (L. Upeott GilL 2s.

net.)—Lip-reading is "the method whereby the child is taught to see the words spoken by others." Those whose hearing is normal do not notice the changes in the mouth of a speaker, because they have no occasion to do so; to the deaf such observation becomes liighly, useful; more liseful, because simpler and less troublesome

to the speaker, than the alphabet of signs. The book is naturally full of technical details which it is impossible adequately to notice in these columns ; but we may give it a general commendation to our readers.