The Short-Hand Supplement

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Excerpt from The Short-Hand Supplement: Being Some New Inventions in Shorthand Writing Arranged for Writers of Isaac Pitman, Ben Pitman, Howard, Munson, Graham's and Other Systems of PhonographyShort-hand has been slowly developed during the past four centuries by a number of inventors. The lives of these geniuses were not contemporaneous. The late Sir Isaac Pitman is the best known at the present time. And he prob ably added the greatest number of improvements to short hand of any one man. In his system he adopted the best of the early inventions, and added many valuable ones of his own. Since Mr. Pitman's first edition was published until the present day there has not appeared an invention of importance in short-hand not found in some one of his numerous editions. By this is meant inventions of a funda mental character. Every author, oi course, makes some tri¿ing changes, and so far as that goes. Nearly every stenographer deviates more or less from the text-books.The question may be asked: Why, after making such fundamental and important inventions in short-hand as the author considers those herein presented to be, he did not publish a new system as others have done when making only tri¿ing changes, or sometimes doing nothing more than selecting a uniform system from the various editions of the Pitman system.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.