Marriages of the Deaf in America

Abstract

MR. FAY'S work is an inquiry concerning the results of marriages of the deaf in America, a research originally instituted by Dr. A. Graham Bell among the charges which he committed to the Volta Bureau when he endowed that institution. When Mr. Fay undertook this work—as a labour of love—the resources of the Bureau were placed at his disposal, and he was further helped in his investigations by his Government appointment as a special agent for the collection of statistics relating to the deaf of the United States during the taking of the eleventh census. By these means Mr. Fay was particularly well equipped for his work, and the volume before us is no mean result. Taking as the chief aims of his inquiry the solution of certain questions of interest and importance to the deaf as a class and as individuals, he has sought by all the means in his power to obtain satisfactory replies, and his success will be seen by all who care to give the book a careful study. The questions to be elucidated were as follows:—

Marriages of the Deaf in America.

By Edward Allen Fay. Pp. 527. (Washington: The Volta Bureau, 1898.)