Excerpt from Phonography in the Office: A Complete Shorthand Clerk's Guide With Chapters on Special Preparation, Including Business Phrases and Contractions, Letters, &C Phonography, or Phonetic Shorthand, has revolutionized the old idea which connected Shorthand exclusively with the Press, and has placed the art alongside the electric telegraph and the railway, as a necessity of modern business life. Year by year the thousands who are learning the art to qualify themselves for the office, and the situations in which Shorthand is a recommendation or a necessity, are increasing, and seem destined to increase almost indefinitely in the future. Hence the acknowledged want of a guide for the Shorthand Clerk, which would, at the same time, give in some measure the assistance of a text book of preparatory training for those seeking such a position. In the following pages both these objects have been kept in view, and the author would venture to hope that sufficient ground has been covered to make this a useful and necessary supplement to Mr Pitman's general instruction books in that large majority of cases in which the intention is to make use of Shorthand in the office and in business. 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.