Excerpt from Phonography in the Office: A Complete Shorthand Clerk's Guide With Chapters on Special Preparation, Including Business Phrases and Contractions, Letters, &C Taking, therefore, with but this brief retrospect, the standpoint of the present position of shorthand, and its relationship to commerce, there are two facts which strike one very forcibly at the outset. One is the astound. Ing rate at which the demand for shorthand in the office and in business life has increased during the last twenty years, is still increasing, and is destined perhaps to in crease, beyond.even the most sanguine anticipations of the inventor of the system which, by common consent, has superseded all other systems, whether ancient or modern I mean, of course, Pitman's Phonography. The other fact is that, to some extent as a consequence of this demand, there never was a time when so many persons learned the principles of the art of shorthand as at the present, or when, one is bound to add, such a large proportion of learners failed, for the want of a little perseverance, to make the art of any real use to them in the business of life. 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.