I do not know of any case in which taste or touch, and only of one case in which smell was completely absent; but the cases are numerous in which sight or hearing was absent, either from birth or from very early childhood; and there are several cases in which both sight and hearing were absent. One case is known, in which sight, hearing, and smell were all absent.

In only two cases of blind deaf-mutes, so far as I am aware, have we such information in regard to dreaming as can be considered valuable, because only two persons so affected have received such an education as made communication with them on this subject possible. These two persona are Miss Laura Bridgman, who died in 1889, and Miss Helen Kelle who is still alive and young and as well able to describe her dreams as any one having from birth the full use of all the senses.

Both Miss Bridgman and Miss Keller are Ameri-cans, and it is much to the credit of their country that they have received in it so complete an education. In no other country as yet have the difficultie of conjoined congenital deafness and blindness been so fully overcome. Miss Keller's pride in the land of her birth, which 1 know to be great, must be deepened by the reflection that, if she had been born in any other country, she would almost certainly have still been in a world of complete darkness and silence-Though the chief doors of access to her mind were closed, Miss Sullivan, aided by some other teachers, with a courageous and intelligent perseverance, surmounted every obstacle that stood between them and their high aim, and Miss Keller may now be correctly described as even more thoroughly and more widely cultured than ladies of her age who have the use of all their senses, and who have had every educational advantage. It has been said of her that 'she is the only well educated deaf and blind person in the world.' Fortunately for her teachers, they found in their pupil a desire to learn quite as strong as was their desire to teach. Mark Twain has said that 'the two most interesting characters of the nineteenth century are Napoleon and Helen Keller -his way of giving emphasis to the victories won by Miss Sullivan and her pupil.

(31) Miss Keller has been much questioned about her dreams - too much perhaps - for, as I have been at pains to point out, the recollection of dreams is almost never clear and complete, and they can Very seldom be recounted without large editing.

When a dream has been told, and re-told, and told again, it no doubt assumes a shape which it retains in further tellings; but, if it is a long dream, the credulous only will accept it as a correct narrative of the actual dream. Indeed it is doubtful if a long dream can ever be accurately and fully told, though the teller may have no thought of falsifying either by additions or omissions.

If this is correct, it becomes scarcely proper to ask any person, but especially a young person, to write an account of his or her dreaming; yet in the face of my holding this opinion, I have to confess myself a frequent transgressor in the matter.

(32) I first applied for information regarding Miss Keller's dreams to Mr. Hitz, the Secretary of the Volta Bureau {at Washington, D. C.) for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge as to the Education of Deaf-mutes. I also applied directly to Miss Sullivan, Miss Keller's enlightened teacher, who has written me on the subject, and has also sent me for perusal a short statement by Miss Keller herself in her own type-writing. Then I have further the full account, which Miss Keller wrote for Professor Jastrow, and which appears in his book, Fact and Fable in Psychology. The outcome of all this information, or at least of what seems to me important in it, I hope to be able to give in a few paragraphs.

(33) My information regarding Miss Bridgman's dreaming is also somewhat full. It is partly derived from the Reports of Dr. S. Howe, a man of great distinction. These Reports were written annually during the course of her education, which he originated and conducted. They are now scarce documents, and came into my possession many years ago. Another important source of my information about Miss Bridgman's dreams is the account of her life and education by Mrs. Lamson, one of her teachers.

(34) Miss Keller is now about twenty-two years old. She became totally blind and deaf at the age of nineteen months. This is so early an age as to be practically the same as being born blind and deaf. She had reached the age of seven when her education began, and she displayed from the outset considerable intellectual power and a great desire to learn. The efforts to teach her to speak orally began when she was eleven years old, and she now speaks in that way to some extent, though she still generally uses her fingers - indeed almost entirely in conversation with Miss Sullivan. One other fact regarding her should be kept in mind. She is a well made healthy lady, of very pleasant appearance. In other words, her only wants are the senses of sight and hearing. In all other respects she is well-conditioned.

(35) Mr. Hitz was visiting Miss Keller's mother when my letter reached him. I asked in it for information about Laughing and Blushing, as well as about Dreaming, but I refer here only to what he says about the last. He tells me that Mrs. Keller stated that in her opinion Helen's dreams ' were very much like those of hearing people, and that never to her knowledge had she dreamt of being either blind or deaf.' She said further that Helen's dreams, like those of ordinary persons, ' were sometimes very grotesque,' and she gave the following illustration : Helen ' remembered playing whist in a dream with cards made of small-sized marble tombstones,' and she wondered how she handled and shuffled them as well as she did. Mrs. Keller does not appear to have definitely told Mr. Hitz whether Helen's wonder occurred during her sleep or afterwards, but the inerence from what she said is that it occurred, as we should expect, after she awoke.