à voix basse, in a low tone

3. au jeu . . . efficace, -with ??iore or less effective mechanism.

4. Philippe Reiss (1834-1874), became in 1858, a teacher at Friedrichsdorf, near Homburg in southwestern Germany, and there constructed his musical téléphone.

5. voltaïque, voltaic, the same as galvanic, and more commonly used.

Page 181. — 1. électro-aimant; cf. page 179, note 2.

2. M. Graham Bell, the celebrated scientist and inventor, born at Edinburgh in 1847; came to Canada in 1870, and to Boston in 1872. He is a member of several learned societies and has published many scientific monographs. In récent years his résidence has been in Washington, D. C.

3. Alexandre Melville Bell, an educator, born in 1819. He came to Canada with his son in 1870, and removed to Washington in 1S81. He has been widely known among educators as the inventor of " Visible Speech," a method of instruction in orthoepy.