kotered according to Act of Congress,

BY WM. ARTMAN AND La V. HAL'. Lo the Clerk'R Office of the District Court of the Northeru District of New Yote

To the American Pubite,

Um hoxe Philanthropic Heart

Ever Moves at Humanity's Call,

Ghis Volume

IS RESPECTFULL' INSCRIBED.

CONTENTS.

PAON

63

a

Introduction,

Memoirs of Eminent blind authors,

15

Homer,

17

Ossian,

29

Milton,

43

Rev. Richard Lucas, D. D.,

62

T. Carolan,

Thomas Blacklock, D. D.,

70

Huber,

84

Holman,

102

· Wilson,

115

Beauties from a Blind Man's Offering,

128

Mrs. S. H. DeKroyft,

142

Miss Frances Brown,

152

Miss Frances Jane Crosby,

168

Miss Cynthia Bullock,

180

Miss Daphne S. Giles,

192

Miss Alice Holmes,

207

Achievements of the Blind in the Learned Professions :

Section I. Progress in the Sciences,

217

II. Divines, Lawyers and Physicians,

234

Achievements of the Blind in the Industrial Pursuits:

Section 1. Mechanics,

249

“ II. Miscellaneous Occupations,

261

Achievements of the Blind in Poetry and Music :

Section I. Some explanation of the method by which the

Born Blind gain a knowledge of the extension, magni.

tude and appearance of distant objects,

280

Section II. Blind Musicians,

294