Excerpt from The Private Secretary: His Duties and Opportunities This book is the outgrowth of a series of lectures on private secretarial duties delivered by the author at New York University, School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. The lectures were given to meet a demand from private secretaries and from prospective private secretaries, who desired to learn just what the duties of the private secretary were, how best to perform these duties, and also how to fit themselves fully for the position. The purpose of this book, then, is to give to those persons who are seeking to prepare themselves to become private secretaries or assistants to employers in the business or professional field the information that they will need to have about their specific duties. In addition it seeks to aid prospective private secretaries by pointing out briefly the general knowledge and qualities that they should possess. 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.