Excerpt from An Expeditious Method of Writing in Common Characters, Whereby the Business of the Desk May Be Shortened About One-Half: Useful to All Descriptions of Penmen, Particularly to Reporters, Correspondents, Copyists, and Such Literati as May Not Have the Advantage of Knowing the Art of Stenography Having devoted several years to the study of Stenogra phy, it has occurred to me that several of the Principles of that Art are not essentially connected with the short-hand Cipher; but that they are applicable to a species of writing couched in Common Characters, which, although its traces may be more than five times as lengthy as short-hand, will only occupy about half the space or time of ordinary writing, and, moreover, is comparatively of easy attainment. 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.