deaf-mutes, who could be trained to talk, he believed, by means of the telegraph. scientific Bohemian, with the ideals of a savant and the disposition telegraph, the scene of the story shifts from Canada to Massachusetts. Speech." He knew it so well that he once astonished a professor of had been written in "Visible Speech" characters. While he was living in problem, it became at once an enthralling arena, in which there went very little knowledge of the small practical details of ordinary living. "Visible Speech" alphabet. He was so deeply impressed by the progress mastered by them. He had no shrewdness, in any commercial sense, and arrived in Canada he was in doubt as to which of these two tasks was the Oriental languages by repeating correctly a sentence of Sanscrit that more important--the teaching of deaf-mutes or the invention of a musical than to people; and less likely to master his own thoughts than to be Graham's exploits with a class of deaf-mutes; and soon afterward the nose, full lips, jet-black eyes, and jet-black hair, brushed high At this point, and before Bell had begun to experiment with his He had been fascinated from boyhood by his father's system of "Visible of an artist. He was wholly a man of enthusiasms, more devoted to ideas He was always intense, always absorbed. When he applied his mind to a whirling a chariot-race of ideas and inventive fancies. It appears that his father, while lecturing in Boston, had mentioned Boston Board of Education wrote to Graham, offering him five hundred dollars if he would come to Boston and introduce his system of teaching made by these pupils, and by the pathos of their dumbness, that when he London his most absorbing enthusiasm was the instruction of a class of and usually rumpled into a curly tangle. In temperament he was a true