THE PRINCIPAL ADVANTAGES OF SHORTHAND ARE SECURED WITH THE WHOLE Methodically Arranged and Amply Illustrated; WITH DIRECTIONS FOR CORRECTING THE PRESS, AND WITH KEYS TO THE EXERCISES, EMBRACING REMARKS UPON THE MEANS RERUM, THE MOST USEFUL MODES OF READING, IM- TO WHICH ARE ADDED Several Appendixes pertaining to Phonotypy and Phonography. BY ANDREW J. GRAHAM, CONDUCTOR OF THE NEW YORK PHONOGRAPHIC ACADEMY; AND AUTHOR OF "To save time is to lengthen life." NEW YORK: ANDREW J. GRAHAM, 544 BROADWAY. HARVARD COLLEGE Feb6.1933 LIBRARY Prop Clevert 1 Jack Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, BY ANDREW J. GRAHAM, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. IN COURSE OF PREPARATION, A SERIES OF BRIEF LONGHAND READERS IN THE SECOND AND THIRD STYLES PREFACE. THE causes that led to the formation of the system of contractions here presented are stated in subsequent pages. There has been, at least, an earnest endeavor to make it accord not only with certain principles of legibility and speed, which have been thoroughly tested in the best system of shorthand ever devised, but also with the principles of abbreviation (developed in this work) which have heretofore been confidently relied upon by the literary public; and it is felt entirely unnecessary to crave for it the lenient exercise of judgment and criticism, since much rigid testing of it by practice has induced the belief that the system will improve in the estimation of writers in the proportion that a practical knowledge of it is attained. There is nothing abstruse pertaining to the system-nothing which can not be easily learned and readily reduced to practice. Its three styles are three progressive developments of the same principles-corresponding to three different classes of uses. Each style is amply illustrated by Exercises, which should be perused till familiarity with the appearance of words as contracted is attained. This injunction should be faithfully heeded by all who wish to reap the full benefits of the system. The Exercises, besides serving as exercise in Brief Longhand, will, perhaps, furnish their readers with useful subjects for thought. Every reader seeking the means of intellectual improvement will thankfully accept the suggestions of the Exercises entitled, "How to Acquire Ease and Correctness in Composition," "Authorship," "Reading to Purpose," and "Common-Placing." The article on "Mental Machinery," from the Tribune, is worthy the serious consideration of every educationist. |