The object specially borne in mind in preparing the work has been to render it equally suitable for selftuition and for individual or class instruction under aĪlthough students, as a in understanding theīeginning of their study, an intelUgent grasp of all that is conveyed by that term. One hundred years have now elapsed since the birth of Sir Isaac Pitman and in issuing what is thus appropriately designated a Centenary Edition of his system, advantage has been taken of the opportunity to introduce certain improvements in the rules and arrangement, and in the method of presenting the system to the student, which wiil greatly assist the learner in acquiring the art. No other system of shorthand designed for the EngUsh language has been subjected to tests so prolonged, so diverse, and so severe as those which Pitman's Shorthand as the system is now generally styled has undergone during the last seventy-six years, with the result that it has been most successfully adapted to the practical requirements of all classes of shorthand writers. These were the fruit of long and varied stenographic experiments, and of the valuable criticism and experience of large numbers of expert writers of the system who had applied it to work of every description. In the numerous editions of Phonography pubhshed in many improvements were introduced. In 1840 the second edition of his work appeared, under the title " Phonogi-aphy, or Writing by Sound, being also a New and Natural System of Shorthand." following pages was invented System of shorthand writing presented in the by Sir Isaac Pitman, who in 1837 pubUshed his first treatise on the art. The DEVICE which appears on the cover and THE facsimile SIGNATURE ARE THE SUBJECT OP PROTECTION UNDER THE TrADE MaRK Laws of the United States of America ANr THE British Empire.
This new and revised edition op Isaac Pitman's System of Shorthand is the exclusive copyright of Isaac Pitman & Sons, in the United States of America and the British Empire, as well as in all countries INCLUDED IN THE BeRNE CONVENTION, AND IT WILL BE AN INFRINGEMENT OP SUCH COPYRIGHT IF MATTER FROM IT BE REPRODUCED IN ANY PUBLICATION WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION.
LimitedĬopyright, 1916, by Isaac Pitman & SoNa Copyright, 1913, by Isaac Pitman & Sons Copyright, 1910, by Isaac Pitman & Sons Copyright, 1905, by Isaac Pitman & Sons Copyright, 1901, by Isaac Pitman & Sons Copyright, 1899, by Isaac Pitman & Sons Copyright, 1893, by Isaac Pitman SHORTHAND INSTRUCTOR A COMPLETE EXPOSITION OF
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