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Show BOOKS FOR BLIND CHEAPER New Method of Printing, Discovered In France, Ha Lowered the Coit Materially. Books for the blind are to bo very much cheaper because of a new method meth-od of printing them discovered In franco, and free libraries for the blind are to bo established throughout through-out the provinces of Prance. This Information In-formation comeB here from the Paris correspondent of tho Journal of the American Medical Association, who writes: "Hooks with raised letters used by tho blind are generally very expensive. expen-sive. They have, up to tho present time, been of two distinct types: fc First, those which were stereotyped. JF tho manufacturing process being so m expensive that frequent printing of I new books Is mado almost Impossible; second, thoso written by hand by some blind person whoso good will I does not prevent htm from making fre- qucnt Inaccuracies, and who can mako I but one copy nt a time, and that only I slowly. I "Now M. Ernest Vaughn, tho dlrcc- I tor of Hosplco des Qulnzo-Vlugts, has B devised a press for printing books for B tho blind by means of which a text of B Irreproachable exactness can bo ob- B talncd and, at a cost much less than B that of either the stereotyped or tho B band-written books. To placo this Bj system on the market he has founded B the Soclcte Phllanthroplque d'Impres- Bj slons pour les Aveugles, of which tho celebrated writer Anatole France, Bj member of the Academle Francalse, Is president." New York Times. |
