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Show many"have sought AND NONE FOUND, PERFECT SYS-TEM SYS-TEM OF SHORTHAND. Desire Wa A Ardent In the Dayt ot the Roman a In Our Own Time ' Fortune AwalU the Diiccverer. fllr KiUitnl Clurkf, In JnlnliiB H'8 ruttks of tin- Invoiiliirs of ntoitin of Bhortliuml, Iiuh )li-lik'il to n tonuita-tlon tonuita-tlon coiniiioii to KMtt iiiwt of all uros. Tlin IcnrntMl CBjptliiii who llrst Kt tired of wrltliiK out a coiiiplfttt lilero-Klyphlc, lilero-Klyphlc, and took to rukkvhUiik part of It only, wim on tli way not only to an alihaliot, lint towurd tlio Koal roncliod by Sir IMwaril lilniHelf. Slnco that dim period wo luive nil .lioon do-InRourlicatto do-InRourlicatto llntl a nijal road tocv pit-KHlon, and liao arhlcivcd tlio Brum-ophoac Brum-ophoac Kvcti Hcrhort Spencer, whoso fnthur liivontod a l.tield Shortliand," wan liltten wllli tlio tli'Hlio to conquer con-quer time, and lie tells tut that an examination of hiu father'8 stein left htm In no doubt wlmlevei that It whb the beat of all The fntallt) of all Byuteliis. however, Is that what bcpiiib en) to the eye of llllnl piety may li teirilily (lllUcttlt to tho cold Kazi) of the Rtraimer. Of the liiiiumeinble HyBteniH or Bhoithnml that were In vogue a century hko how many survive today? In "pile of Pitman, Pit-man, fame and fortune Htlll await tho man or woman who can Invent a h'b tern that will appeal to the reader no effectively as to the original wilier. Perhaps If we were to rediscover the lost shorthand wrltliifi of tlio ancient KomatiH we mlpht feel ourselves on the road toward a solution of the problem. prob-lem. Kor the Romans weie on affectionate affection-ate terms with shorthand. Did not Suetonius, BpenkiiiK or Caligula, ex-press ex-press surprise that an emperor of so many promising parts should, nevertheless, never-theless, be an iRiiorninitH In shorthand; short-hand; and did not Titus Vespaslnnus pride himself on his fnclllty In the use of stenoRrnphy both for business and umiisiMUiMit" So fond was he of the sport that he deltfihted to Rather his amanuenses around him In order Hint they should tilt aRaliisl each other In tho Btenosiaphlc field It may bo that but for tho rediscovery of the art In mi own country toward the end of tho sixteenth century the curious Peps would not have bien moved to write bis Diary, Bays the Iindou ChronP'lo. Tho first Impulse to tho rediscovery nnd cultivation of shorthand In modern mod-ern times may probably bo traced to tho desire, at the time of tho Reformation, Refor-mation, of preservliiR the discourses of tho preachers of the new doctrines "To wflto as fast as a ufau gpcakeKi trentably," tho Kllzabctbnn wrltlnR master mid stenographer, Peter Dales, declared to ho "In effect very easy the shortness whereof Is attained by memory, and swiftness hy practice, and sweetness by Industry " Hut tho early B) stems were very Inefficient, nnd this has been considered by critics crit-ics to bo one of tho causes of tho corrupt cor-rupt rcndlnRB of the text of some of Shakespeure's plays. Contemporary opinion on the subject may bo gathered gath-ered from tho "Plensaiit Dialogues and Drnmmas" of Thomas I ley wood (1C.17), who says that his play of "Queen Plzaboth" "Did throne tha aruta, Ihe txixea and tint atiiRii So much so that aonie hy aletiography drew A plot, put It In print, ai-un-i- one word true." |