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Excerpt from Barnes' Shorthand Manual: A Complete Self-Instructor, Revised Edition, Designed for Home Study, and for Use in Schools, Academies and Colleges This book was not written because the author wished to promulgate any new theory of shorthand. Pitmans Phonography, or modifications of Pitmans system, under the name of Graham, Munson, etc., is now used by all the eminent reporters of the English-speaking world. It has been thoroughly tested and improved in the daily practice of over two hundred thousand stenographers within the last fifty years, and it has been found equal to every emergency. We prefer this system to any theory of our own or of others whose claim to superiority rests upon the words of a few interested individuals. Hence, this book contains Pitmans Phonography (as found in Isaac Pitnjan sninth edition and in Benn Pitmans Manual), with such modifications as have been adopted by a vast army of expert reporters. It has been written because the author has found no text-book that makes shorthand J2appear as simple as it really is and that teaches the reporting style from the beginning. In this work the student is not taught to. write a word one way in his first lessons, another way when 5 further advanced, but he is taught from the very outset to write words as a reporter would write them. Thus the student mem3orizes no bad or awkward forms. He learns nothing that will have to be unlearned, or that is unnecessary for the skilled reporter to know. He learns to use thew andy semicircles as the reporter 5 uses them instead of learning the more difficult method of the Wcorresponding style. Unnecessary difllculties have been removed.5 The explanations are clear, the classifications natural and helpful, the rules explicit and easy to understand, the exceptions few. The author has shown plainly when to use a brief sign, such as a ij hook, circle, etc., and when to use a stroke to represent a consonh ant sound, when to halve and when not to halve, etc. gInstead of using both sides of a straight stroke for the shun hook, the large final hook on then side of a straight stroke is used to represent thr, tr, or dr. Grahams thr tick is also used. A rule has been given, not found in any other text-book, by which many words, like child, call, care, etc., may be correctly written, without the necessity of memorizing them as word-signs. 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.