Part 1. The nineteenth century -- Pierre and Camille / Alfred de Musset -- Doctor Marigold / Charles Dickens -- Mumu / Ivan Turgeneve -- The deaf mute / Guy de Maupassant -- Part 2. The twentieth century -- Why it was w-on-the-eyes / Margaret Montague -- King Silence / Arnold Payne -- The key / Eudora Welty -- Talking horse / Bernard Malamud -- At the dances of the deaf-mutes / Walter Toman -- Part 3. From Deaf authors -- The lost senses / John Kitto -- A voice from the silence / Howard L. Terry -- The deaf mute howls / Albert Ballin -- Muted voices / Eugene Relgis -- No sound / Julius Wiggins.