The author of this system was a writer and teacher of Mr. Pitman's Phonography for several years. Learning from long experience that it was impossible to give his pupils any skill in that art without years of practice, he commenced about seven years ago to simplify it. He has succeeded beyond his most sanguine expectations. He has succeeded in forming a system on an entirely new basis, as much more scientific, simple and practicable, than Mr. Pitman's, as his is more scientific, simple and practicable, than the arbitrary stenographies of former ages. It differs from Mr. Pitman's system in the following results:

1st. IT IS MORE EASILY READ. Each sound is clearly and fairly written in the common style, without word-signs or contractions; while the easy reporting style is equally definite and certain, containing no equivocal forms.

2d. IT IS MORE RAPIDLY WRITTEN THAN HIS. The simplest style can be written nearly twice as rapidly as Mr. Pitman's simplest style, and the reporting style 25 to 30 per cent, faster than his reporting style.

3d. IT IS MORE EASILY REDUCED TO PRACTICE. The simplest style can be mastered in a small fraction of the time required to master the corresponding style of the old Phonography, while the labor of learning the reporting style is reduced more than one-half.

There are other points of difference, almost equally important.

Thus, American citizens, we are permitted, through the good providence of God, to offer you a style of writing, by which in its simplest form you can save two-thirds of the time, and eight-ninths of the labor of writing; a style perfectly legible, and as fully written as the common writing; and above all, a style which you will not attempt to learn in vain.

The art of short-hand is now, for the first time in the history of the world, adapted to general use, and within the reach of all. Every child in the land can now readily master it. Its use need not be confined to reporters, nor yet to professional and literary men, but must become general.