De. Moon's Works Foe The Blind.

Numerous are the letters of the most pleasing and grateful character that- Dr . Moon is continually receiving from the blind , and the noble Avork of home-teaching among the blind of Great Britain is progressing with the most satisfactory results . But the more the home-teaching Avork progresses , the greater is the demand for the increased variety of books . To meet this demand , as Avell as others equally pressing , Dr . Moon again earnestly pleads for continued assistance from his subscribers to the Avork , and he

earnestly hopes that many additional friends may be raised up to enable him to extend the usefulness of his system of reading to the blind of other countries , AVIIO have not had the privilege of reading for themselves . Contributions may be addressed to Dr . William Moon , 104 , Queen ' s Road , Brighton . The folloAving are the 131 languages and dialects to Avhich Dr . Moon has adapted his type for the blind , specimens of Avhich may be had by Missionaries and others going abroad . These specimens Avill serve as a kind of first lesson for teaching the blind to read :

Accra or Ga , Aimara , Aneityum , Arabic , Arraivack , Armenian , Armono-Turkish , Basque-French , Basque-Spanish , Bengali , Bohemian , Brazilian , Breton , Bulgarian , Bulloin , Sherbro-Bullom , Burgandian , Carniolau , Catalan or Catalonian , ChippeAvyan , Choctaw , Cree , Creolese , Croatian , Curacoa , Dajak , Dakota or Sioux , Danish , DeLware , Dorpat Esthonian , Dualla , Dutch , Enghadine-Gpper , Enghadine-Lower , English , Esquimaux , Faroese , Fijian , Fernandian , Finnish , Flemish , French , Galla , Gaelic ,

German , Grebo , Greek-Ancient , Greek-Modern , Greenlandish , Haussa , HaAvaiian , HebreAv , Hindustani , Hungarian , Hungarian-Wendish , Icelandic , Indo-Portuguese , Irish , Isubu , Italian , Japanese , Javanese , Judeo-Arabic , Judeo-German , Judeo-Spanish , Kafir , Karif or Carib , Khassi , Kikamba , Lapponese , Latin , Lettish or Livonian , Lifu , Lithuanian , Lithuanian Wendish Lower , Lithuanian Wendish Upper , Malagasy , Malay , Malay-Middle-Class , Maltese , Mandarin-Southern , Mandingo , Manks , Maori , Mayan ,

Mexican , Mohawk , Moldavian , Mosquito , Mpongwe , Namacqua , Negro-English of Surinam , New England-Indian , Ningpo , Normandian , Norse , Ojibwa , Peking , Persian , Piedmontese , Polish , Portuguese , Provencal , Quanian or Norwegian Laplandish , Raratongan , EevabEsthonian , Romano-Moldavian , Romany , Rcmman , Russian , Samoan , Samogitian , Sechuana , Servian , Shanghai , Sesuto , Slovakian , Slovenian , Spanish , Susoo , Swedish , SAviss , Tahitian , Tamil , Tigre , Tongan , Turkish , Vaudois , Wallachian , Welsh , Yoruba .

A list of foreign books in Dr . Moon ' s type may be had on application . Further particulars of this work will be found in an interesting little volume , entitled , " Light for the Blind , " by Dr . Moon , published by Messrs . Longmans & Co . , Paternoster ROAV , London . Illustrations of some of the Benefits the Reading has been to the Blind . One of our readersa woman in Scotlandmet with an accident through a fall

, poor , Avhile cleaning her house . This disabled the hand by Avhich she Avas accustomed to read . While lying in bed after the accident , she thought she ivould try to read ivith the other hand . When the book was given her , she commenced what she thought Avould be a useless experiment , hut , to her agreeable surprise , she Avas able to make out distinctl y the words of a hymn . " Oh , how strange , " she said , " that the first hymn that should turn to me on opening book should be the one entitled ' Thy Avill be

up my done . ' When I commenced reading that hymn I ivas in a sad , repining state of mind , but before I finished , I felt calm and trustful ; it Avas to me as a Avell of ivater to a Aveary traveller in a desert land . " Another poor woman , aged 45 , thirty years blind , learnt to read in three lessons . When the teacher first called , it ivas thought impossible she could learn , as she is deaf to every sound . But he determined to try so he at once put the alhabet under her

; p h'lgers . She said , " Oh , this is the alphabet for the blind ! I tried to learn a long time ago , but could not get on , ancl I am afraid I sha ' nt IIOAV , but I will try . " The teacher passed her hand to and fro over the page , by Avhich means she learnt most of the letters before he left . On his second visit , she said in a sad , despairing tone , " I am afraid I