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Excerpt from A Biographical Sketch of Dr. James W. Stone: With a Portrait Tm: use of Standard Phonographyjn reporting near pages during the past year (1856) enables us to assure the phonographic pub lic that Standard Phonography is really a great improvement up on the Old, or English, Phonography. Of course, all its advantages do not appear in the following Biographical Sketch. Important, however, as its advantages are, we would have been unwilling to disturb the bar mony of the phonographic world by publishing a system which the majority of the phonographers would be glad to use and which has served us so well, had not the Messrs. Pitman themselves commenced the work of experiment and change. Mv. Benn Pitman, within eigh teen months, has introduced an f-hoolc (which, however, is not distinct from the shn-hook! And whose use must be very limited), and other wise departed from the principles of phonography as explained in the 9th edition of Isaac Pitman's Manual of Phonography. 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.