Excerpt from Instructor in Practical Court Reporting The following pages are the offspring of a desire to instruct the would-be court reporter in the application of stenography to the recording of judicial proceedings, and to assist him to surmount the many obstacles which beset his path; to place before the trial lawyer the difficult nature of the labors of the court stenographer, and to paint for the law student a true picture of the life of the court-room: to the end, that the mere stenographer may, if he choose, become a competent court reporter; that the trial lawyer may discover how to obtain the best work from the latter, and that the law student may learn the various steps in the trial of eases as they are, in fact, taken. The book is intended, primarily, for the stenographer; incidentally, for trial lawyers and law students. My object has been to present to the stenographer every important phase of court reporting, to show and explain the methods generally used in doing it. and to describe the nature and meaning of the various features of a trial. I have not assumed to instruct respecting subjects of which I do not have personal knowledge. 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.