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Excerpt from Illustrative Shorthand In this work, Illustrative Shorthand, the one great object kept steadily in view has been to make it thoroughly practical, as well as to shorten the time required to master it to a three months' course, and in this time to become so familiar with the principles as to be able to build therefrom any word spoken in the English language, thereby making the student an independent writer. Shorthand alone is illustrated, and to this end the first departure from all other methods has been to discard entirely the vocal chart, as it is called, or vocalization as formerly taught, which constituted the principal part of the work for the first five months. Then, in order to write at a speed exceeding eighty words a minute, this vocalization has to be dropped and the habit formed of striking the dot and dash to be overcome, which I can assure you, from my own personal experience, is no easy task. I was a diligent student of the Pitman system, and after examining other systems brought before the public consider the Pitman the most comprehensive published. But in teaching that system, as I have been for years, I saw the necessity of a shorter method for attaining the desired object. There were so many worthy young women and men who had neither time nor money to expend on so long a course, having others dependent upon them, and were compelled to give up good paying positions on account of not understanding Shorthand, as no firm doing any considerable amount of business can now afford to do without a shorthand business correspondent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.