Excerpt from Spencerian Shorthand: For Amanuensis, Court, and Verbatim Reporting Since the last edition of this little book, the Spencerian Quick Writing system has made enormous progress, not only with professional stenographers but with the general public. In the edition preceding the present, the author was content to state as simple facts the claims of the system. So stated, they appear to all writers of other systems extravagant enough 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.