Deaf American Prose, 1830-1930.

Intro -- Book Title: Deaf American Prose 1830-1930 -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Literary Impressions of Deaf Lives -- John Robertson Burnet -- The Orphan Mute -- My Sister's Funeral -- James Nack -- Law Proceedings -- The Last Words of a Bachelor -- Laurent Clerc -- Visits to Some of the Schools for the Deaf and Dumb in France and England -- Unknown -- The Wonderful Coffee-Mill -- Isaac H. Benedict -- Aerial Navigation by a Deaf-Mute -- Mary St. Cloud Belches -- A Family History -- Joseph Mount, "Joe the Jersey Mute" -- Recollections of a Deaf and Dumb Teacher -- A Leaf from a Teacher's Diary -- John Carlin -- Excerpt from The Scratchsides Family -- Howard Glyndon (Laura Redden Searing) -- The Realm of Singing -- The Widow Waring's Christmas Surprise -- William B. Swett -- Selections from Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains -- James Denison -- Impressions of the Milan Convention -- Edwin (Edmund) Booth -- Booth's Reminiscences of Gallaudet -- Kate M. Farlow -- Selections from Silent Life and Silent Language, or, the Inner Life of a Mute -- W.C. -- Scene in a Railroad Station -- Frieda W. Bauman -- A Romance of Far Away Cuba -- Hypatia Boyd -- What One Girl Hears and Sees -- What One Girl Hears and Sees (Continued from the February number) -- Douglas Tilden -- Reflections of a Deaf-Mute Philosopher -- Helen Keller -- What I Am Doing -- Alice C. Jennings -- Is It Beneficial to a Deaf Oralist to Learn the Sign Language -- Douglas Tilden -- More Extracts from the "Zeno" Mss: The So-called "Tribe of Fools" -- Alice Taylor Terry -- Bro. Hart's "Something Greater" -- Thomas Flowers -- Life after Graduation -- Howard L. Terry -- A Sophomore's Revenge -- Helen Keller -- New Vision for the Blind -- Margaret Prescott Montague -- The Little Sign for Friend -- The Enchanted Princess -- Alice Taylor Terry.

Sound-Why Not Let It Alone? -- Vera Gammon -- The Three Doors to Knowledge -- Guie Leo Deliglio -- The Test of the Heart -- Miss Hester of Sunset Valley -- George W. Veditz -- De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum -- Howard L. Terry -- Selections from Mickey's Harvest: The Checkered Life of an Unusual Boy -- James F. Brady -- Pro and Con -- A Christmas Story -- Albert V. Ballin -- A New York Deaf Artist at Hollywood: Some Experiences in Getting a Foothold in the Movie Studios of Hollywood -- James F. Brady -- By Their Signs Ye Shall Know Them -- Albert V. Ballin -- In an Impromptu Don Quixotic Tilt with a Modern Wind Mill, called Automobile, with Dire Results to Himself -- Roger Demosthenes O'Kelly -- A Fight with a Highwayman -- Albert V. Ballin -- The Life of a Lousy Extra -- Howard T. Hofsteater -- The Wound -- Afterword.

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