A Manual of Pitman Phonography

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Excerpt from A Manual of Pitman Phonography: Prepared for School, Private, and Mail Instruction A Good book needs no apology, and a bad one cannot be saved by any effort to conceal its defects. An acceptable text-book on phonography is a difficult work to write. The author of such a book must put himself in the place of the student of little culture as well as the student of education and literary attainments. To write a text-book that will be clear to one and not over explained to the other, to adapt the instruction to all classes of minds, is no easy task. That this has been accomplished is attested by the fact that students of this system have become professionals in every branch of labor requiring the skill of a stenographer. In the multiplicity of methods published in this country, owing to the fact that the American copyright law encourages rather than stifles invention (as is the case in England), it might seem to a person not versed in the art that there could be little or no difference in the value of systems, that one might as well be chosen as another, that each is equally good, that all serve the purpose required of shorthand, on pretty much the principle that the same result can be attained by different penmen using different pens. But there is this important difference: skilled work can be done more easily and more satisfactorily and with greater expedition and certainty by the very best instrument than with any one of a dozen fairly good tools. It is a fact in shorthand authorship, as in other literary work, that some one man is capable of writing a better book than all other authors. For evidence of this we have but one Blackstone expounder of law, though hundreds of law writers, one Gray on botany, though botanists without number, one Ruskin on art, in scores of art writers, one Herschel among many astronomers, one Morse in hundreds of electricians, one Webster in a world of definers. For half a century our art has been burdened with over explanation or lack of illustration, making it difficult for a student to understand the application of principles or, impossible for him to get an adequate knowledge of the art for practical use. 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.