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...Gault admitted that his instrument is not now intended to take the place of lip-reading???probably, he said, it never will. Says he: "For every 100 words that are recognized by the method of lipreading alone, 120 are recognized in what I call lip-touch-reading or in the condition of dual stimulation...
Marquess of Reading???Foreign Secretary...
...portraiture has icy precision. Epigrams rattle like hail. Southern stuffiness?the scene is Queen-borough, Va.?is snowed under by pretty drifts of poetic irony. It is engaging reading???but the wrong person wrote the book, overwrote it, if these generation-comparisons are to be taken seriously. Miss Glasgow is too merciless to make her Judge bearable; too doctrinaire to know what she means by Annabel. The best character is Gamaliel's twin sister, Edmonia, who lost her virtue young, married four times and loves to tell about...