"This book is the sixth of my text books on lip-reading, and as it embodies everything which the previous works contained, and considerable in addition, it is intended to replace them. Some parts of the book appeared originally as articles in "The Volta Review", "a Monthly devoted to the problems of deafness," published in Washington, D. C. and acknowledgment of the courtesy of allowing reprinting is hereby made."-From the preface of Edward B. Nitchie.