Of Short Hand

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Excerpt from Of Short Hand: Or the Coroner and His Friends A few words as to the scope and objects of the book. Whether so intended or not, it will serve to extinguish the slander that "the stenographer, from constantly writing the thoughts of others, becomes in time a mere mechanical instrument, incapable of thinking for himself, requiring the spoken thoughts of thinking men to put him in motion, and that therefore, the more he knows of stenography, the less he knows of anything else." It is not a book on stenography by an advocate of any particular system of swift writing, but one which the adept in the art, the amateur, and the non-phonographic reader can peruse, enjoy, and one in which they mayhap find touches here and there that remind them of Poe, or Twain, or Dickens. One of the Objects of the work is to illustrate the liability to error. The rapid spread of geometrical sound-writing, otherwise, and not so well called, phonography, in the domain of business life within the past decade, has been at tended with many incidents grotesque, painful, and perhaps surprising. This might have been anticipated, because employers, as well as employees had to learn how to use a new thing, and the former had, in many cases to accept in experienced help freshly "turned out" of the schools. Odd errors of transcription have from time to time furnished occasion for mirth or for anger. Long before the day of phonography the proverb "It is human to err" had met with acceptance. 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.