/ 66? T II E COMPENDIUM OF TACIIYGRAPHY: OB SLEY'S PHONETIC SHORTHAND. PLAIXIXG AND ILLUSTRATIIG THE COMOX STYLE OF THE ART. By D. P. LTNDSLEY. ' Now what naltirr a there ngainst the formation of written signs, which l/licity corresponding with that of spoken sou: up with the voice, and a man ;(j >ak.' ' Horace Mann. FQ UR TH EDIT! X . BOSTON: OTIS C L A r 1' , 3 B K A C ON STREET. NEW YORK : SCHERMERIIORN, BANCROFT, &. CO., 430 BROOME ST. 1 8 1; 7 . THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES I -&- JL. \ A \VYER aJ^S, TEXAS THE COMPENDIUM 0F TACHYGRAPHY: OR EXPLAINING AND ILLUSTRATING THE COMMON STYLE OF THE ART. , * BY D. P. LTNDSLET. V " Now what natural obstacle !s there against the formation of written signs, which will be indefinitely shorter than that which constitutes the English Language, or the Language of any other people ? * # * Let the system of written signs be reduced to a brevity and simplicity correspondin^fcwith that of spoken sound, and thereis no reason why the hand should not be able to keep up with the voice, and a man write as fast as he can speak." Horace Mann. FOURTH EDITION. BOSTON: OTIS CLAPP, 3 BEACON STREET. NEW YORK : SCHERMERHORN, BANCROFT, & CO., 430 BROOME ST. 1867. Entered according to Act -of Congress, in the year 1867, by D. P. LINDSLET, ii the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. PREFACE. THE new System of Phonetic Short-hand, which we have partially developed in the following pages, is the result of a protracted effort to conform the system of Mr. Isaac Pitman to the beauty of its theory. A few persons of peculiar genius have mastered that system, and found its use of great service in all their literary pursuits. But while a few were able to relieve themselves of the intolerable drudgery of writing by its means, hundreds we can say, in truth, thousands were striving in vain to make the old system practically useful to them. We speak what we know. Nineteen twentieths of all the phonographers we have ever seen are of this number ; and we are almost constantly in receipt *~ of letters from all parts of the country which testify with emphasis ' to the impracticability of phonography, and express an earnest hope t% that some system may be found that can be applied to the common j uses of writing. Besides, as -a 'teacher of phonography for several ' years, we might give the result of our success, if more testimony were needed ; but it is not necessary. When we awoke to the fact that we ;? were attempting a hopeless task in trying to shove a system, into favor ** burdened with the irregularities and complexities that characterize that ^ system, we were surprised to find that most thinking men had arrived at the same conclusion long before us. And, when stimulated by a view of the necessity of some relief from the toil of writing, we con- j ceived it still possible to work out the phonographic theory in a prac- p tical shape, we were more than pleased to learn that such men as the late Hon. Horace Mann had anticipated us here also, and indicated, with the usual clearness of his perceptions, the plain and practical plan on which success was certain. And others have from time to time urged the impor- tance of a more rapid system of writing, not for the use of the verbatim reporter, but for all the ordinary purposes of writing. 449534 4 PREFACE. But what are the characteristics of a system that will supply tht demand ? We answer, It must be SCIENTIFIC, SIMPLE, LEGIBLE, and BRIEF 1. No contrivances of contraction, however ingenious, can ever unite large masses of men any farther than immutable principles underlie them. A true system cannot properly be considered arbitrary. There is a reason why certain alphabetic signs are more appropriate to certain sounds than others. Wore it not so, we might speculate on alphabetic changes through all coming time, and still be no nearer a satisfactory result. 2. The whole drift of modern science and art is toward naturalness. To copy the simplicity of Nature is found the highest wisdom. All can fol- low the direction of a few plain principles. Redundancies and exceptions repel, and destroy uniformity. As we have before said, the phonographic theory was simple and beauti- ful ; but it was departed from so widely in practice that its value was nearly lost. We have given expression to that original design. We have wrought out a style as simple in fact as in theory. When the al- phabet is mastered, the student has a key to the common style. Diph- thongal signs are used for diphthongal sounds ; but they do not interfere with the harmony of the theory, any more than the use of one sign for the diphthongal sound of / long in our common alphabet breaks up the unity of design. Our pupils read this style readily with three or four weeks' study ; they cannot read the common chirography readily with three times this amount of practice. 3. Legibility is all important for a thousand uses of writing. We need only say that this system is in this respect far superior to any previous system of short-hand ; we say more : it is far superior in this respect to long-hand. The grossest carelessness, on the part of the writer, can scarcely render it unintelligible ; and as there are no con- tractions to remember, and nothing to forget, it can be read after the lapse of years with the certainty of common print. 4. Brevity. This is a cardinal point ; for the prolixity, the cumber- someness, of our ordinary writing is what we seek to avoid. In making the letters of our long-hand alphabet, we make from three to seven movements of the pen for each, on an average, four. About one letter in seven is silent in our common orthography. In Phonetic Short-hand we make one simple stroke for each simple sound ; this eaves three fourths the labor : \ve omit all silent letters ; this gives us a farther advantage. Besides, the distance passed over by the pen is vastly less in short-hand. We write this simpler style three to four PREFACE. times as fast as long-hand ; but we save more than nine tenths of the labor of writing. We mean that a person can write more than three times as fast, with less than one third the fatigue. Though this speed is much less than that of our briefer styles, yet it is greater than can be attained by the simple style of phonography, and greater than has been attained by any large number of persons in the briefest styles of most systems of short-hand. This is not mere theory. For several years we have tested its capa- bilities, and with uniform success. Pupils of all ages, from children to men of mature years, have mastered it, and have given us the most ample assurance that we have not overrated its simplicity, brevity, or scientific accuracy. No impediments now hinder the acquisition of this much-coveted art of rapid writing. The editor can use it ; for no intelligent compositor need spend more than a fortnight in acquiring the ability to set up type from his short-hand manuscript. The author can use it. The clergyman can use it ; for he can read his notes with greater readiness than in the old way. The lawyer, the physician, the student, every- body, can use it ; for it is so simple and practicable that everybody can learn and remember it. The importance of having a style of writing level with the capacities of all can hardly be over-estimated. Although most can use it in a thousand ways independently of the knowledge of others, yet its value to all is heightened by every increase of the number who understand it. Hence, the greatest success must be gained through the most natural style. As the leading idea of this style is PRACTICABILITY, we have carefully excluded from it all contractions and ambiguous forms, so far as possible. If any ambiguities of outline exist, it is only another illustration of the ab- solute impossibility of conforming perfectly to any ideal standard of perfect- ness. It would be easy to avoid Scylla, if no Charybdis yawned on the other hand. The greatest brevity is easily attainable, if there be no regard to perspicuity, and no fear of complexity ; the most perfect simplicity might be attained, if brevity were not desirable. Between the extremes of complexity on the one hand and prolixity on the other, we have, we think, found the proper medium. For all the ordinary purposes of life, this style will be found neither too complicated nor too prolix. For the professional reporter, we have two more complicated styles, a Reporting Style and an Fjasy Reporting Style ; but they should be studied only by reporters. 6 PREFACE. This work is only a compendium ; but we have omitted nothing essential to a clear knowledge of all the principles of this style ; for their application, however, in detail throughout the vast extent of the English language, we must refer to our larger work, which will be published in due time. January, 1864, D. P. L. The Common, Easy Reporting, & Reporting Styles THESE Styles are based on the same general principles. The COMMON STYLE is the basis of all, and must be learned before the REPORTING STYLES can be understood. The more perfectly this first style is mastered, the more easily will success be secured in the second or third. The three form a progressive series, analogous, in a measure, to the three branches of mathematics : Arith- metic, Algebra, and Geometry. And as a knowledge of Arithmetic answers in ordinary business, so the Common Style of Tachygraphy is the best for all common use* ; such as keeping books in a mercantile or other business, mak- ing memoranda, correspondence with friends, composing of sermons and speeches, preparing editorials and other matter for the press, and, in short, for all uses to which our ordinary writing is applied. Compositors can learn to read it in a few weeks, with as much certainty as long-hand writing. The Common Style is also adapted to taking notes of lectures and dis T courses ; and, although not so brief as the Reporting Styles, yet I am fully persuaded, by the experience of thousands, that the greater number of writers will use this style more readily, certainly, and effectively than any reporting style whatsoever ; and make it of more use to them, even in the ordinary duties of a newspaper reporter. A speed of 100 words a minute may be acquired in it, and even more than this. In the Easy Reporting Style, briefer forms are employed for all words and phrases of frequent occurrence ; brief prefix and affix signs ; and a few general principles of contraction. In comparison with the old, irregular, and compli- cated styles of Phonography, this Easy Reporting Style is very simple and accurate. It may be mastered, by persons of aptitude, in three or four months ; and may be written at the rate of 150 words a minute. The Reporting Style enters into detail more fully contains many special contractions, and should be attempted, only by those who wish to make the art a profession. It may be written at any desirable rate of speed, by those who master it fully ; but it requires much more practice, to make it available, than, the simpler styles. No person should attempt to use two of these styles at the same time ; nor can a writer change from one style to the other frequently, without a loss of speed and accuracy in both styles. INSTRUCTION IN THE KEPORTINQ STYLE. THE Easy Reporting Style will be furnished, to students only, for the present, in the form of manuscripts, to be copied and returned. Fifteen numbers are ready for use, which will be furnished with exercises to be written by the student and corrected by the teacher. The use of the manuscripts and the correction of the exercises will cost five dollars. This arrangement is far better for those who wish TO LEARX the art than a book ; which would be misused in a great majority of cases, as the history of Phonography everywhere testifies. We are profoundly impressed with the conviction, that, for the present, while the principles of the science are so sadly corrupted by the so- called phonor/raphic writers, and young men are deluded into a foolish waste of time in the study of contracted forms for which they have no use when learned, wo can protest against this mania for contraction in no better way than by pvibluking only those principles that may be made generally useful, and teaching on the most favorable terms the stenographic brevities useful only to Reporters of public pro- ceedings. EXPLANATION OF TERMS. TACHTGRAPHY. Greek ra%vf (Tachus), swift, and ypa --4ion, and above all, on their distinctiveness. We/represent the consonantal sounds by straight lines, and curves of the quarter ^|La circle, ?nd the vocal sounds by small semi-circles, dashes, dots, and diamond points. Our alphabet is in, some respects similar to the phonographic alphabet, but there are several important points of difference ; and these differences are fundamental, growing out of important principles. In Phonography vocal sounds were expressed by dots and 'dashes, which took their value from theu- position. A dot in the first position was E, in the 2d, A, in the 3d, Aj, -" we anticipate more difficulty than with any other letter. Ng has three sounds, >>x\, c_ , and -^, as in the words longer (lon-ger), change (chanj), and sing. Ng is represented by ^ in the following words : singing, ringing, bringing, etc. ; by -~- _ in change, range, strange, etc. ; by >-^\ in linger, finger, stronger, etc. SECTION 4. Wh, qu, etc. Wh (sounded hw) has a sign appropriated to it by which it is uniformly represented. Ha-Wa would not be an exact equivalent, if their use was convenient. Qu is represented by Ka-Wa ; but it should be noticed that the u does not have the exact sound of wa. It has the sound heard in dwell, twit, thwack, etc., in which the w is represented in the same way ; namely, by wa. REMARK. We have noticed in this chapter only such features of the short-hand orthography as are phonetic or purely phonographic. We reserve for a future chapter, where it will be better understood, such deviations from phonetic accuracy as are deemed essential to facility in tachyg- raphy. We need add but one general direction to the student. Having become perfectly familiar with the alphabetic signs as representatives of elementary sounds, pronounce the word to be written slowly and clearly, and give each sound its appropriate sign, and you will spell correctly. CHAPTER IV. THE general principles detailed in the preceding chapters should be studied and understood. The student should now learn the alphabet, following the directions given below. SECTION 1. Direction of the Signs. 1. Perpendicular signs and those inclined to the left are struck downward ; horizontals, from left to right ; Ha, Wa, and Ya, up- ward ; Em, El, and Ar, either upward or downward. 2. We need not here specify the cases in which Em, El, and Ar are more properly struck downward; but the upward form is gener- ally preferable when they are initial ; and convenience will determine their use in most cases. 3. and rt are always struck in the direction that the hands of a clock move; c , v, and u, in the opposite direction. This direc- tion is a safer guide to the true letter than merely the form ; and it gives a great freedom to the use of these signs, which may be struck around further than in the alphabet without danger of mistaking the sign. The c , how- ever, must maintain its original position. The heavy / is struck downward, the light , upward ; - i - and \ are written in the same direction as | and \ . They should be one-fifth as long. 4. When the vowel comes on the first end of a consonant sign, it must form an angle with it. If necessary, an angle must be made by the use of a connecting stroke. See Illustration F. This is seldom necessary. 5. On the end of a sign the vowel may form a hook ; yet here a con- necting stroke is sometimes necessary. REMARK. In mastering the alphabet, the following has been found to be a good method of study : DIRECTIONS FOR PRACTICE. EXERCISE 1. Beginning with Be, Pe, fill a line of your copy-book with these letters ; thus, Be, Pe ; Be, Pe ; Be, Pe, etc. (made, of course, in short-hand char- acters) . Go on with Ga, Ka, in the same way ; and so proceed with the first twelve consonants in pairs. Then review them after the manner of "the house that Jack built," thus: Be, Pe ; Be, Pe, Ga, Ka; Be, Pe, Ga, Ka, De, Te, etc. See Illustration D. EXERCISE 2. Review the first lesson thoroughly. When it is mastered, proceed with the remaining consonants in the same manner. Then take up the vocal 20 ALPHABETICAL SIGNS. 21 signs in triads, and master each triad thoroughly before attempting the sec- ond. See Illustration E. EXERCISE 3. Review the two preceding lessons. Proceed to write each vowel before all the consonants in their order, joining or disjoining according to the rules givep ; then write each vowel after all the consonants, observing the princi- ples laid down. See Illustration G. EXERCISE 4. Go through the exercises prescribed in the preceding lessons. They should be repeated day after day, until the alphabet can be penned accu- rately with the same facility that the common alphabet can be. The future progress of the student will depend very much upon the thoroughness of these introductory exercises. The student should now read a part of the first exercise ; and then pro- ceed to write the following : WRITING EXERCISE 5. Be, bay, bah ! boo ! bow. Pea, pay, pa, pooh, poe, paw. Key, ka, coo, co, caw, gay. go. Tea, tay, too, toe, taw. Fee, foo, foe, faw. She, shay, shah, shoe, show, shaw. See, say, sah, BOO, BOW, saw. Thee, they, though. Me, may, ma, moo, mow, maw, nay, gnaw. know, He, ray, raw, roe. He, hay, ha, who, hoe, haw. We, way, waa, woo, woe. Jah, jar. joe. Aid, day, ate, knee, ye, lay, fane, date, rate, wait, ace, say. Ought, taught. Eat, tea, ape, pay. Abe,- bay, ache, go, oak, eke, ease, owes, ooze, oar, row, own, know. SECTION. 2. Connection of Signs. 1. All the signs that compose a word must be joined together, except some vocal signs, as hereafter specified. The dot is never joined. The dashes are disjoined whenever they do not form an angle with the consonant preceding or following. See Reading Exercise 1. Between two consonants they are joined to both, when they form an angle with both ; when the vowel does not form an angle with both, it may be joined to one and disjoined from the other. 2. A connecting stroke may be used with other semi-circles as well as A ; but no connecting stroke is used with the dashes. Reading Exercise 2, line 12. All the semi-circles, except A, may be joined without an angle, to a preceding consonant, forming final hooks. 3. The hook is made larger for the long vowels E and Ah, to distinguish them from the short sound i and u, which form small hooks. Exercise 2, lines 6 and 7. It must be especially observed that these hooks are always final hooks, never initial. Initial hooks are used in compound signs. (See the next chapter.) 22 LINDSLEY'S PHONETIC SHORT-HAND. WRITING EXERCISE 6. Pa, bah, bar, far, deep, reap, keep, part, cart, guard, sharp, door, Bhore, mere, hear, seer, tear, roll, soul, toll, bowl. Ale, fail, hale, dale, awl, tall, hall, wall, call, cool moor, tour, soup. Am, aim, dam, dame, lamb, lame, ham, ram, has, last, hasp. His, hiss, hit, with, wit, wisdom, win, wind. Hid, heed, did, deed, rid, reed, wit, weed, mid, meed. Bat, bar, fat, far, pack, park, dark, car. And he said unto them. Let not your good be made evil. Seek peace. Forsake every evil way. He did the deed. He hid the reed. He will dip it in the deep. 4. The semi-circles (except A) may be slightly varied in direction, as before stated. When such variation will suffice to make a proper angle, it should be preferred to the use of the hook for all long vowels ; but the hook is preferred for all short vowels ; that is, use the hook for the short vowel whenever convenient ; avoid the hook for the long vowel when possible. 5. The light lines of the diamond points may be curved outward, when they will thus form a better angle ; Reading Exercises 2, 8 and 9. The diamond points and semi-circles are seldom disjoined ; but they may be in a few cases. When the semi-circies occur between two consonants and do not join readily with either, they should be disjoined. The use of connective forms is, however, so convenient, that some prefer to use two connecting strokes in these cases, instead of disjoining the vowel. See Illustration H 6. O may take the direction of , and vice versa, when more convenient, in forming a proper angle. See Illustration I. Reading Exercise 2, lines 10 and 11. EXERCISE 7. Epoch, Enoch, in, ink, been, pin, pink, seek, sick, meek, week, weep, reap. Fade, lady, ruddy, muddy. Rope, hope, lobe, tuck, luck, muck, farmer, farthing, palm, calm, favor, save, safe, lave, love, pave. SECTION 3. The Position of Disjoined Vowels. 1. A disjoined vowel is written on the left of a perpendicular or inclined stroke, if it precedes ; it if it follows, on the right ; it is written above a horizontal stroke, when preceding, below when following. Reading Exer- cise 1. 2. The dots and disjoined o, are written near the middle of the stroke ; the other vowels, when disjoined, may be written near the end. They are however, perfectly distinguished by form, so4hat this position is not essen- tial to their significance. REMARK. Let it be repeated that the student should master the alphabet thoroughly before attempting to go beyond it. See Illustration J. EXERCISE 8. Ebb, egg, ed. Deck, neck, peg. Separate, section, deceptive. Not, non, what, do, to, to-day. Among, men, when, ten, den. Bone, known, alone, done, son, one. Fatal, fadeless, family, seminary, assidu- ously. ALPHABETICAL SIGNS. 23 REMARK. The student must review every day. In this art nothing should be considered gained until it is perfectly familiar. We give a mis- cellaneous exercise to facilitate review. EXERCISE 9. Long. A, I, 0, be, he, me, we, so, go, may. Short. At, am, an, in, it, on, up, us, odd, man. Irregular. The, she, is, has, have, are, was, you, do, does. I am. He is. It is. She is. We are. You are I was. He was.. It was. She was. I do. You do. I have. You have. She has. It has. I go. You go. She is up. She is on. He is in. It is in. He is up. We are up. We are on. We are in. It was in. It was up. It was on. She was up. I do it. You do it. I have it. You have it. She has it. I go up. You go up. I go on. I go in. You go in. I am a man. He is a man. You are a man. She was in it. I was in it. ! do go in. ! do have it. Are you the man ? I go at it. She was at you. Do you go in it ? Has the man an ear ? Does he go in ? Does he go up ? Does the man have it ? We are upon it. We go in it. REMARK. We add a few more suggestions for practice. EXERCISE 10. Rewrite the preceding lesson. To facilitate this review, the student may omit every other line, when making the first copy, and rewrite on the line left open. We ask pupils who take private lessons to leave two lines ; we correct their writing on the second line ; they rewrite on the third. REMARK. The pupil will now proceed with reading and writing alter- nately, adding a little to his exercise each day. He should be sure that he can read all he writes as well as the printed exercises; and, to make it sure, he must actually read each day the writing exercise of the preceding day. SECTION 4. Short Vowels. Were the pupil supposed to understand the sounds of the letters accu- rately, further illustrations might be spared. The distinction between the long and short sounds of the vowels will need some attention b*y most per- sons. In learning -the short vowels, the pupil will do well to pronounce and write the following exercises : EXERCISE 11. Ib, eb, ab, oob, ub, ob. A_p, ep, ip, op, up, oop. It, et, at, oot, ut, ot. Ad, ed, id, od, ud, ood. If, ef, af, off, uf, oof. Is (s, not z), es, us, oos. In, en, an, on, un, oon. Im, em, am, oom, um, om. Ill, ell, al, ool, ol, ul. Ir, er, ar, oor, ur, or. Said, head, led, wed, bed. Peg, leg, beg, deck, neck, wreck. Add, bad, Bad, lad, had, mad. Mat, hat, rat, fat. Cap, rop, map. It, hit, lit, bit, pit, Bit. Odd, dot, sot, got, hot. Us, thus, much, judge. Soon, nook, took, rook, look. SECTION 5. Position of Outlines. The first perpendicular or inclined consonant in a word must rest on the line of writing. Those that follow, take their own proper directions on the line, above, or below it, as the case may be. It will be observed that the consonant sign forms the proper limb for the outline to rest on. In the 24- LIXDSLEY'S PHONETIC SHORTHAND. word bay, for instance, the Be would come down to the line, and the A be low it ; in came, Ka rests on the line, A is just below, and Em is struck downward ; in come, Ka is written as before, u is disjoined and Em struck upward ; in him, Ha commences on the line, and the whole outline is above the line. See Illustration K. EXERCISE 12. Car, jar, bar, arm, farm, mar, tar, far, cart, barn, park, or$ for, cork, fork, cord, lord, sort, form, corn, horn, morn, her, herd, jerk, clerk, serf, err. cur, fur, bur, burn, urn, lurk, Turk, curb, turf, surf, curd, curl, furl, hurl, curt, fir, sir, firm, dirk, erk, kirk, quirk, gird, bird, girl, work, word, world, worm, worst, wort, girt, birth, first, dirt, hurt. ^ His farm has a barn on it. He rode in the park in a cart. I put a fork in the cork. The lord put a cord on his neck. He had a bur for his spur. Do not put a blur on the paper. A Turk may lurk in the dark, and take your urn. He did curb him on the turf. The surf came in a wave on the turf. The girl had a bird, and did gird on a belt. He epoke not a word in the world. SECTION 6. The Union of Letters without Angles. Both consonants and vocal signs may often unite without an angle. This adds to the facility of the writing ; both letters should be struck as though they were one. But all angles are determined by strict geometrical laws, and the student should be as careful to make an angle when it is required, as to avoid it when it is not required. Observe that the consonant curves are quarter-circles, and the vocal curves semi-circles, and you will easily de- termine the angle. NOTE. It will be remembered that a vowel before a consonant, or joined to it at the point of commencement, must make an angle ; but on the end, the semi-circles (except A) may form hooks. This is a species of contrac tion, since it saves one stroke. See Illustration L. \ Double letters, so called, in the common orthography, do not occur in Tachygraphy ; but the same letter is often repeated, with an intervening vocal sound. When this sound is represented by a dot or disjoined vowel, we have forms seen in Illustration M. 'EXERCISE 13. Key, debt, mated, bubble, public, dead, favor, memory, unending, asses- sor, accessory, sustenance. Judge, edged, etched, judged, latched, error, rarer, horror. Move, method, mother, meditate, met. Gun, ken, government, court, color, bend, ribbon, ebon, depend. Doth, death, eight. Sun, sung, good- ness, business, lemon, melon, multitude, multitudinously, luminously. Hazel, Joseph, several, safe. Antedated, indebted, undoubted, misrnated. NOTE. The student should bear in mind that a ready use of the alpha- betic characters in all their possible combinations is the basis of good and rapid writing. The preceding exercises should be written and corrected by a competent instructor ; and then rewritten many times until the pupil can write them with no hesitation. When this is accomplished, it will be safe to proceed to the next chapter. COMPOUND SIGNS. NAME SOUND. THE EL SERIES. Bla, bl in blow and able. Flu, pi in plow and people. Gla, gl in glow and eagle. SIGN. NAME. SOUND. THE ES SERIES. f Spe, sp in spy. \ Ske, sk in sky. c_ Ste, st in stay. Cla, cl in clay and fickle. <) S fe, sph in sphere. } 1 1 <\ o Sme, sm in smite. c_x Sue, sn in snow, a/ Sle, si in slow. ex' Swe, sw in swell. THE WA SERIES. ^ Wha, wh in when. wa, thw in thwack. Dl, dl in idle. Tl, tl in settle. VI, vl in oval. Fla, fl in fly and awful. THE RA SERIES. Bra, br in brow and number. Pra, pr in prow and uppe*. Gra, gr in grow and eager. V- Gwa; so also Kwa, Dwa, and Twa. Cra, cr in crow and meeker. THE ^^ CJRCLE> Dra, dr in draw and wonder, I Eps, ps in hopes. Tra, tr in try and utter. b Ebz, bs in hubs ; so also Eks, Egs, &c. V_P Ence, nc in hence. vj> Ens, ns in tens. -^ Els, Is in else. J Elz, Is in ills. s? Ers, rs in worse. f Erz, rs in wars. Vr, vr in ever. Fra, fr in free and safer. Zhr, sure in measure. Shra, shr in shred and usher. Thr, th in either. Tlira, th in three and anther. Nr, nr in owner. th in thev - Tha, th in birth. CHAPTER V. SECTION 1. Compound Sounds and Signs. THE vocal diphthongs I, Ew, Oi, and Ow are represented by compound Bigns. These signs have a relation to the signs of the simple sounds. In analogy with this, we use signs for certain combinations of consonant sounds. These sounds, when so represented, are considered and treated as diphthongal sounds, and consequently this mode of representing them is in accordance with phonic science, as well as convenient in practice. The combinations recognized as compounds belong to the Wa, El, Ra, and Es Series. 1. The Wa Series consists of Wh (hw), gw, kw, dw, thw, and tw. The first only is provided with a distinctive sign ; its use is invariable. The gw, kw, dw, tw, thw, are written by joining the simple signs in the usual way. 'See Illustration N. WRITING EXERCISE 14. Whay, why, while, where, wherein, wherever, whereabout, wherefore, whereto, which, wharf, whale, wheel, whiff, whip, whittle, wheedle, Whig, whey, whoa, whew, wheeze, wheezing, whelm, when, whence, whenever, whensoever, wheresoever, whereas, whereat, whereinto, whereof, whereon. Qui, guac, qua, quick, quiet, querl, quarrel, quench, quill, quail, quart, query, quarry, quadraginta, quinquaginta, quintuple, quadruped, quaff, qualify, quality, quandary, quantity, quarto, quib, quickness, quiesce, qui- etism, quietly, quietness, quietude, quietus, quinque, quire, quiz, quizzical, quizzing, quo ad hoc, quo animo, quota, quoth, quotidian, quo warranto. Equal, aqueous, aquafortis, equality, equiforin, equiformity, equip, equi- page, equipoise. Acquire, acquiring, equity, acquiesce, aqueduct, Aquitanian. 2. The El Series is Bl, pi, gl, kl, and fl. The first four are represented by the alphabetic signs for Be, Pe, Ga, and Ka, varied only by an initial hook on the right side of these signs ; Fl by an initial hook on the El. Reading Exercise 3, line 2. 3. The Ra Series is Br, pr, gr, kr, dr, tr, fr, thr, and shr. An initial left-hand hook characterizes the first four, also/r and thr. A hook on the under side of De and Te, dr and tr ; and a hook on the Ar, shr. These compound signs are employed in all cases when the sounds coa- lesce ; as in the words play, pray, blow, brow, try, reply, displace, etc. EXERCISE 15. PI, pr, bl, br, tr, dr, kl, kr, gl, gr. fl, fr, thr, shr. Play, pray, dry, glow, grow, glee, bray, tray, dray, try, plow, prow, blew, brew, clue, glue, grew, trouble, drabble, trapper, trooper, broker, platter, 27 28 LINDSLEY'S PHONETIC SHORT-HAND. prattle, clutter, battle, batter, flow, fro, oval, over, through, either, initial, treason, pleasure, brother. Place, blaze, brays, prays, bless, press, trace, grace, glows, grows, power- ful, travel, gravel, clever, glover, thrive, shriek, display, destroy, distress, prosper, express, describe, descry, subscribe, disgrace, disclaim, discreet, testy, exclaim, disclaimer, discriminate, criminal, bridge, trial, glimpse, dis- agree. 4. The Es Series is Sp, sk, st, sf, sm, sn, and sw, as initial compounds. The compound sign is not used when the * is a first consonant in the word, and is preceded by a vowel. The circle would be used, for instance, in spe- cial, but not especial. It would be used in stem, state, scout, but not in esteem, estate, sect. If preceded by a vowel in the beginning of a syllable, it is employed when the two sounds are clearly diphthongal ; if not, not. Exercise. E. g. : dispose is properly divided between the dis and pose, and the s and p are clearly separated in pronunciation ; but the word de- spair is divided de-spair, leaving sp as a compound. Restore, respond, bespeak, bestow, are other examples of compounds ; distance, dispense, discover, mistake, examples that do not contain compounds. It will be observed that the Es circle is on the El hook side of the straight signs, and on the inside of the curves. SECTIOX 2. Compounds of the El and Ra Series in Final Syllables. 1. The final syllables of feeble, local, paper, rightful, leader, water, etc., contain no vocal sound ; yet the consonants do not unite as closely as they do in initial syllables. The use of the compound signs in these cases is not 60 strictly phonetic, but no indefiniteness can result'; and their use will be found of great service in many words. The full form will, however, some- times make a better outline, and join more conveniently with a preceding vowel. In final syllables, the initial compounds are used, together with the fol- lowing : dl, tl, vl, vr, thr, zhr, and nr. Reading Exercise 3, lines 10 to 12. It will be observed that initial 1 and r are never represented by the hook ; that the hooked character is seldom used when the two sounds are not closely united ; that the remaining part of the word often determines whether it is best to use it or not. A little care and experience will obviate all difficulty. "WRITING EXERCISE 16. Treble, terrible, traitor, Tartar, frame, farm, odor, adore, utter, attire, seeker, secure, idle, dull, glow, goal, clay, coal, flow, follow, evil, volley, fritter, ferreter, turtle, tortoise, break, bark, breath, birth, frail, furl, trade, tardy, blubber, pilfer, gutter, guitar, crier, currier, boulder, bladder, plaid, pallid, peal, plea, pale, play, Saturday, stride, purpose, propose, torpor, trapper, brawl, barrel, crave, carve, curves. 2. When Es in the end of a syllable unites with a preceding consonant, the circle may be employed ; and, since Es only can be sounded after the aspirates, Pe, Te, etc., and Ze only after the sub-vowels, Be, De, etc., the circles may be employed in the end of syllables for either Es or Ze. After El, Ra, and En, either Es or Ze may be pronounced ; BO, after these letters, TRIPHTHONGAL COMBINATIONS. 29 we make one side of the circle heavy for Ze, while the Es circle is made light. 3. "When a syllable is added to a word ending with the circle, if the added syllable begin with a vowel, the circle is changed into Es ; if it begin with a consonant, the circle is retained. It would be retained in thence- forth, henceforward, ratsbane, boxwood, etc. Note, however, that ing, as a participial termination, may be added after the circle, as the vowel is sel- dom written with it, and the plural termination es in like manner WRITING EXERCISE 17. Hopes, hats, hooks, hubs, heads, hogs, heaves, leaves, laughs, wills, else, ills, worse, wars, purse, first. Of two evils, choose the least. Such as boast much usually fail much. We hope to be able to leave on the day you name. It is easy to demolish, but far less easy to raise up. What is requisite to secure readiness and ex- quisite nicencss in the appearance of such an exercise? 1 may answer, first study the peculiarities of each form till the reason and science of every part of it is fully understood. Then write it over several times with much care till you are able to make the forms accurately. To make the most of the exercise, you should write and rewrite it till you can pen forty to sixty words in a minute. Then read it over and over again till you can read it as easily as printing, even backwards. What a huge ball is this earth on which we live ! How multiform its varied features ! How marvellous its destiny ! His exquisite taste leads him to test things nicely. Is this %e reason that he is caljed testy ? It is not best to boast at random or ever rashly. At the last ball of the season the hall was very magnificently decorated* Lost hours never come back. Time once passed never returns. Haste some- times embarrasses success, and seldom leads to more despatch. He missed it at last. Most may secure all that would be best for them to possess. You must seek in earnest, if you hope to secure such a bonus. The boy has an easy task, and should be required to perform it well, or give reason for his recklessness in the discharge of duty. An unjust judge may be led to seek for justice. Will rust corrode the polished steel ? The storm still rages, but the helmsman steers the vessel with the skill of a statesman. The stoic laughs in the face of danger. You must go fast, if you would overtake him. SECTION 3. Triphthongal Combinations. In the triphthongal combinations, spr, str, skr, and spl, * is written with the long sign, and pr, tr, kr, and pi are treated as compounds. REMARK. These and other compound signs should not be considered con- tractions ; their use is strictly phonetic, and tends to make the writing more legible and beautiful. They can give the student no trouble when once he comprehends the principle ; their use is seldom in any degree equiv- ocal. See Illustration O. EXERCISE 19. Supple, supper, sable, sabre, cider, settle, setter, sickle, sicker, sucker, Buckley struggle, streamer, scraper, scribble, scruple, distress, prosper, ex- press, expressive, extra, exclaim, disgrace, describe, disagreeable, describer, strata, pastry, disclaim, disclose, sooner, suitor, suttle, sphere, suffer, safely, safer, sever, swivel, sparrow, spray, spar, stratum, saturate, saddle, sadly, 30 LINDSLEY'S PHONETIC SHORT-HAND. eagely, ancestor, ancestry, imprest, impostor, imply, employ, impel, temple, temper, tamper, tempter, trample. Try to do right, and you will be quite likely to succeed. The flowing waves please the hopeful angler. The gloomy clouds are full of awful fore- bodings. She is an affable and amiable young lady, and nobly performs her pleasing but tiresome duty. Idleness is a plague to the scholar, for, unless he applies himself closely to his books, he loses all claims to the applause of his family or his official su- periors. In order to excel in any business, it is necessary to persevere and avoid frittering away our energies on too many pursuits. They are in danger of losing the opportunity, and when will they have one in all respects superior ? To acquire any science of real worth requires much labor, care, and perseverance. SECTION 4. The Circle between two Consonants. When the circle comes between two consonants forming an angle, it is written on the outside of the angle ; or, more explicitly, there are three cases : first, when the circle comes between two straight strokes, it is then always on the outside of the angle ; second, between a straight stroke and a curve it is written on the inside of the curve ; third, between two curves it is written, fiist on the inside of both when possible ; second on the inside of that with which the sound is allied ; or third on the upper side when its position is not otherwise determined. See Illustration P. EXERCISE 20. Spk, p-ks, st-m, t-m-z, m-ts, sn-d, sn-ch, sh-ns, sf-t, f-ts, sr-m-n r-m-ns, Br-m-ns, sm-r-m-rz, sm-l-r, sk-l-r, sw-bz, sr-n-t, 1-k-cis, 1-n-s, 1-r-js, 1-gz, 1-jz, sl-k, sh-dz, d-g-n-fz, sl-m-1, d-m-ns. Bsk, bst, vst-1, bsch, fsn, psm, dzr, rsk, hsk, rsn, psl, psr, gsr-t, mzr, nrsl, nsr, rsv, hst, hsl, nv-rs-n-r, ms-l-ns, ds, p-ch, dspzd, dsch-r-j, dsks, WL Kst, ksch-n-j, gzbt, nst, ngst, kpsk, kspnsv, n-dsp-nsb-1, nst-n-t-ns, dsgzd, bst-m-ns. Psp, tst t dsd, tskrs, kskss, fsf, lei, osr, rsr, msm, nsn, using, fsl, fsls, fsr, nsm, msn, mknzn, tsm, mst, tsn, rtsn, stzn, spzm, mdst, psn, Isn, Isng. Qhss, spsz, msz, gzst, nsst, nssr, pssz, ksrsz, pssv, n-f-r-nsz, n-kssb-1, ekssf-l. The sweetest meat may be encased in the hardest shell. Shell fish are among the richest, rarest, and best. Pomposity may subserve some worthy purpose, but ill becomes a solid theme. There are blessings in store for all those who seek for goodness ; glory, honor, and immortality for all who find the truth. There, in those heav- enly climes, are joys that never fade ; there, shall sorrow be assuaged, and darkness, fear, and doubt forever fly away ; there, the happy spirit shall re- joice in glory hoped for long, and prayed for, oh, how fervently ! Their own neglect of God shall curse the souls who sought him not ; their own desires be given those who chose error instead of truth, who preferred darkness to light, the praise of men to virtue's sure reward. CHAPTER VI. SHORTENED FORMS. WE have given, in the preceding chapters, all the principles that are es- sential in writing the common style of the art. ' Considerable increase of speed may, however, be effected by observing the following principles, which, while they are not strictly phonetic in their nature, are still so exceedingly simple and natural as to present no difficulties to the practical writer : SECTION 1. Contraction of Vowels. 1. Oo may be written for Ew after Ya, and En in words where Oo is more convenient ; as in the words union, write, occupy, etc. Reading Ex- ercise 4, line 1. 2. After En, the connecting stroke may be written for i, and. the vowel omitted, as in any, many, sunny, etc. SECTION 2. Omission of Vowels. 1. The common style of the system may be written with perfect accu- racy with the omission of no vowels ; but the adept will increase his speed without sacrificing legibility, by omitting those vowels that do not connect. This may be often done, but not always. If the vowel commences the word, it should be written ; and when the omission would leave an equivocal out- line, the vowel is required in one of the words to be distinguished ; thus, omit the vowel of for, but insert it in fair ; omit it in her, and insert it in hair, etc. Vowels may be omitted as specified in the following cases : (a) In a few short words of common occurrence, do, to, which, that, what, not, for, from, was, one, once, where, there, done, could, would, should, when, unto, were, of, but, etc. (b) In long words they may be often omitted. This should always be done in final unaccented syllables ending in en, er, on, ble, cle, and generally in al, ar, an, etc. (c) The terminations es, ed, ing, less, ness, when mere affixes, and the prefix com, when unaccented, may omit the vowels; and generally in long words an unaccented vowel may be omitted when it is unconnected, and when its use is not needed to distinguish the outline from a similar outline. 2. Accented vowels should, as a rule, be written ; and all vowels that are clearly sounded should be written in proper names of persons and places, in foreign words, and all that are uncommon and liable to be misun- derstood. 4F 31 32 LINDSLEY'S PHONETIC SHORT-HAND. REMARK. 1. We do not encourage the substitution of oo for U in speaking the words contracted by the use of this briefer sign. Its use in such words as tune, substitute, constitution, and a large number of words of this class is a fault ; but the writer of short-hand will consult convenience instead of perfect accuracy. For the instruction of children, a more per- fectly written style than the Common may be desirable. 2. The omission o'f vowels may be carried safely to a greater extent than indicated above ; and the writer who would secure any great rapidity must at least avoid the use of all obscure and unimportant vowels. 3. The introduction of a vowel sometimes relieves the form, and, by presenting a better angle, increases instead of lessens the rapidity. Back is written more easily than beck ; pick than peck; tick and tack, Dick and dock, than tuck and deck. SECTIONS. Facilen ess of Form. 1. The doctrine of angles needs much attention. An acute angle ia better than an obtuse. See Chapter IV. Section 6. By the proper use of the vowels and vowel hooks, the compound signs and the forms for L, M, and R, facile forms may always be secured. 2. The student must cultivate a knowledge of brief forms. He can gain much by reading short-hand papers, but during the first two or three months of practice should have his papers corrected by an expert in the art. .x EXERCISE 1. Deviation from, or omission of, or addition to, truth, is nothing more or less than a lie. Be as slow in deliberation as the case will allow, but quick in execution, unless weighty objections render an opposite course necessary. Resolution and perseverance remove all obstructions to progression. Ambi- tion ia the occasion of sedition, confusion, and dissolution, and arouses every evil emotion and passion./^ Affectation will surely expose a man to derision in proportion to his assumption. The acquisition of knowledge is greatly facilitated by a disposition to understand whatever is obscure in common af- fairs. As possessions of mental treasure are beyond compare with metal, precious though it be, so the possession of moral worth transcends the sub- limest acquisitions of the intellect. CHAPTER VII. PHRASE SIGNS. 1. A GREAT increase of speed in writing is effected by the use of connective vocal signs. A similar advantage is gained by connecting several words into the same outline. Such phrases as of the, on the, to the, to a, of it, with it, it is, etc., may be written without taking the pen from the paper ; and, in some cases, even longer phrases may be so treated, as, for instance, at this time, in that way, at one time, in such a way. They rather increase than lessen the legibility of the writing, when judi- ciously employed. 2. Phrase signs should be employed for phrases only, or for words closely connected in the sentence ; either a grammatical or rhetorical pause between words should lead the writer to separate them in writing. The following phrases are given as examples ; but if proper attention be paid to pauses, the writer may increase their number indefinitely : In truth, in fact, in fine, in short, in general, in particular, no doubt, of course, as it were, to be bi-ief, to be sure, without doubt, without question, beyond question, in the mean time, in a word, by chance, for the most part. 3. "Whether the words of a phrase should be united in writing depends very much upon the convenience of the joining. When the words unite without an angle, as is often the case, it adds greatly to the facility of the writing. Such is the case in the following phrases : ought to be, ouyht to do, at the, to them, from this, from that, from them, etc. But it will be found inconvenient to join more than two letters without an angle ; this is sometimes necessary in word outlines, but should be avoided in phrases gen- erally. 4. Very common phrases may omit the vowels often, where it would not be admissible if the words stood alone. The first word should, however, be fully vocalized, and no vowel omitted that would leave the phrase obscure. Phrases commencing with he, we, you, and some other words, omit the first vowel. 5. But if the first word contain an unconnected vowel, the vowel of the second woi^ should be written ; as in, to it, to invest, from this, etc. REMARK. Students frequently commence by making their phrases too long. Two or three words only should constitute a phrase in most cases ; yet four, five, or more may be sometimes employed. It is better, how- ever, to make the phrases too short than too long ; and especially, where the words are dissociated in sense, they should not be made into long phrases. . . 33 34 LIXDSLEY'S PHONETIC SHORT-HAND. EXERCISE 22. As good. As great. As if. As it may be. As it should be. As long as. Can be. Cannot be. For instance. For it should be. For the. For which. From me. Have been. He has been. He has not. He should. He was. He will. I believe. I can do. I will not. I may say. If there is. If this is so. In a. In the. In any. In no way. In such. At that time. In the world. It is not necessary. It seems to be. It ought to be. It would not be. Learned friend. More than. My brethren. Of the. Of them. On account. On the. Or the. Ought not to be. Ought to have .v Public service. . Shall be. Should be. So as to be. So that. It is impossible. The present time. The first. The way. The truth. The chance. Take place. Take care. That the. That we. There are. There is. There were. They have. They will be. To be. To do. To have done. To the. We are. We may. We have. ' We wish. What is the? When we. When they. Which you know. Which will be. Will be done. Will they? With this. With that. With our. With reference to. Would be. Would you? Would they? You are. You had been. You were. You will be. Your own. Yours truly. In order to love mankind, expect but little from them. We dwellers in this world of error are like men walking through the streets of a city on a foggy morning. Every one imagines that immediately around himself there is little or no fog, but around others, at a little distance from him, he per- ceives it to be thick and blinding. In the day of wooden ploughs, the great danger was in going too fast and knowing too much ; now, the difficulty is to. go fast enough and know enough. Be not dismayed or unmanned when you should be bold, daring, unflinching, and resolute. The cloud whose threatening murmurs you hear with fear and dread is pregnant with bless- ing, and the frown whose sternness now makes you shudder and tremble, will, ere long, be succeeded by a smile of bewitching sweetneea and benig- nity. CHAPTER VIII. UNIFORMITY OF OUTLINE. SECTION 1. L, M, and R. IT is, if not of prime necessity, yet of no little importance to the writer, that he use the same form for the same word at all times. A difference of outline will not render the reading necessarily obscure, any more than a similar mistake in long-hand, nor so much ; because the writer of this sys- tem need, never mistake the true letters of any word that he can properly pronounce, and can hesitate, for the most part, if he hesitate at all, only in the use of the signs for L, M, and R. It may be a matter of taste, how- ever, whether to insert or omit a vowel when unaccented, and whether to use the full form or the contracted for final syllables ending in L and R. We give below a few rules that will aid the student in securing uniform- ity of outline. NOTE. The upward forms of the three varied consonants are named La, Ma, Ra ; the downward forms El, Em, and Ar. The direction of the variable letters is determined by their union, first with the vowels, second with the consonants. We use for convenience here, as in some other cases, the names of the letters for the signs indicated. See the alphabet. 1. (a) Ma should follow E, i; Ah, a, and I. Em always follows A ; Ma precedes 0, u, I, and Ew. In other cases Em and Ma are equally con- venient. (b) La is used before A, Ah, and a, 6, Ew, and Ow. El precedes E, i, and Au. La follows ; and El, Oo and oo. With other vocals, El and La %re equally convenient. (c) Ra is most convenient before A, ah, a, 0, Au, and u ; and after E, (, Ah, ii, I, and Ew. Ar is always used after A unless A is disjoined ; and is more convenient after Oo and oo. In other cases, Ar and Ra are equally convenient. Ra is used almost always for initial R. 2. La, Ma, and Ra are preferred both before and after a descending stroke, and in most cases before the ascenders, Wa, Ya, and Ha. With the horizontals, the upward or downward form is equally convenient, if the an- gle is equally good. An acute angle is, however, better than an obtuse, and hence we use Ar after Te, De, Cha, and Ja, and Ra after.Es and Ze. An acute angle is better than an obtuse, but no angle is better than either ; so Em En is better than Ma En ; but Te or De La should be avoided ; but they are used in a few words. 35 36 LINDSLEY'S PHONETIC SHORT-HAND. V SECTION 2. THA AND tha. In the Literary Style, 'we use the signs named tha and tha, for the German Bounds of ch and g (final) . Since, however, we use them in the reporting style, in certain cases, for distinction, and to form more facile outlines, their use, by the great number who never care to write foreign languages, cannot be objectionable, even in the Common Style. These forms are just the re- verse of the alphabetic signs. They should be used only in cases where the other forms are inconvenient, as after Ra and En. They are used in the words they, than, then, birth, etc. ; and are very convenient in certain phrases, as in, in the, on the, the way, the war. We will add the following rule : Use Tha and tha after A, Oo, oo, and I ; and Zhe, Ish, En, Ing, and Ra ; and before Wa, Ha, Be, Pe, Zhe, Ish, En, Ing, Ja, and Cha. A similar inversion of these signs takes place in phonography, where the forms for th, th, f, and v are inverted and hooked to provide the signs for thr, fr, and vr. REMARKS. When a word is found that occasions any difficulty, it should be studied carefully, and, when understood, rewritten until it is thoroughly mastered. After the first ten lessons, the student should write from dictation. The reader should read very slowly at first, and gradually increase the speed with the ability of the writer. The study of the reading exercises should keep pace with the writing. The reading and the writing are equally important ; neither should be neg- lected for the other. EXERCISE 23. (a) Emit, improve, ambition, I'm, aim, among, motive, mutter, mile, mute, (b) La, lay, land, longitude, lewd, loud, lee, linnet, laurel, old, fool, pull, (c) Ray, radical, roll, raw, ruddy, ear, irrelevant, architecture. arrival, Ireland, endure, arouse, various, poor, carrier, ream, rill, run, raise, risk. 2. Wear, rare, pair, Tory, weary, worry, year, yore, your, territory, chair, jeer, germ, charm, cherry, tarry, door, doer, attire, tear, tare, ema- nation, emerdation, mention, Delaware, intelligence, telegraph, infidelity. SECTION 2. Athens, bathing, writhe, soothe, tooth, wisheth, meaneth, singeth, fear- eth, the way, the war, the heart, the boy, the portion, the surest, the next, the just, the charter, the means, the best means, the day, the hour, the time, the form, the vice, the system, the easiest, the right, the right way, the wrong way, the credit, the germ, the claim, the grand, the glory, the praise, the blessing. CHAPTER IX. SPEED IN WRITING. SECTION* 1. Punctuation. THE same rules for punctuation obtain that are used in ordinary writing and printing, and the same characters are employed. The dash, however, commences with a waved line to distinguish it from a Te or De. No diaeresis or apostrophe is used ; but the hyphen, caret, quotation points, parenthesis, brackets, etc., may be. SECTION 2. Capital Letters. For common practice no distinction of capital letters should be attempted. We have a Literary Style designed to represent the language more accu- rately, as also foreign languages, in which the capital letters are distin- guished. SECTION 3. Directions for Future Practice. This style properly reduced to practice is capable of great rapidity as well as ease and freedom in writing. No person of ordinary nerve should rest satisfied with less than three times his speed in long-hand, and all may go considerably beyond this, unless they contract their long-hand writing. But it is difficult to instruct the writer in the laws of speed by a word of ad- vice. To make the advice of any value, it must be followed, followed thoroughly and persistently. We will suppose that the student has gone through with the exercises in this compendium, and understands clearly all the principles of the art ; that he has a free and ready use of the pen, avoiding a cramped position of the hand or body, and has trained himself to accuracy of form. He should now go back to the alphabet, and see that he can write it with the most perfect readiness. He should be able to write the forty-two characters in fifteen seconds. He should then proceed to the compound signs, and acquire the same skill in their use, writing them all in about twenty-five seconds. Next the consonant forms that unite without an angle should be subjected to drill until the two can be struck with the same readiness as the single let- ters. All ordinary combinations of the vowels with the consonants should next be mastered with equal perfectness. Such syllables as are found in the first easy lessons of some spelling-book (we prefer the Elementary Spelling- Book by Webster) ba, be, bi, bo, bu, ab, eb, ib, ob, ub, etc. are excellent for this purpose. The 'Student who wishes to become a rapid writer should have such easy syllables read to him until he can write them as rapidly as 37 38 LIXDSLEY'S PHONETIC SHORT-HAXD. an ordinary reader enunciates them. He should then proceed, writing from dictation, with words of three letters, following the course of the spelling- book ; and with frequent reviews, rewriting the same thing from ten to twenty times, go through the spelling-book. lie will now be prepared to take up phrase signs. These should be read to him, at first from the com- pendium, and afterward from some simple elementary book. The student should proceed from this to passages from the Bible, extracts from the Gospels, the Psalms, or Job, and from such easy beginnings advance to more difficult works, according to his taste. If this way seems long, we can assure the student that it will pay much better than to blunder on a year or two in a slow and uninteresting way. Some pupils acquire a rapid style with much less practice than indicated here ; yet we do not doubt that the best would do still better with this thor- ough preparation. "We must, also, here protest against a too prevalent idea that, while teach- ers are necessary in all other arts, sciences, and pursuits, the art of short- hand is so much more easily acquired than any other that no teacher is nec- essary. Probably most students will master the art under a competent teacher in one fourth the time that they would master it reiving only on their own quickness of perception. 39 B r ILLUSTRATION A. The Old and New Letters Contrasted. i \ _ ) P K LI "T V- (7 S ILLUSTRATION B.' Phonic Spelling. Capo cap meet met sight sit note not tube. Tub fuse fuss lasli sing singe . longer oath. ILLUSTRATION C. Variations of Vocal Curves. Me mi mi la la IB .ILLUSTRATIONS D and E. Practice on the Alphabet. 1 1 1 1 ii ii i i |i II i! ii 1 1 till \\\\\\ \\Y\\\ \\V\\\\\\\ 41 ILLUSTRATION F. The Connecting S:rokn. ILLUSTRATION G. Vocal before Consonantal Signs. -X X.")") N *- "^ "^ S~ ^ ILLUSTRATION E. "Dipthonjru'. and Disjoined Signs. >' S\ -N ^^ ,i. . i. ',- 'I ^ . / ') L \ U -\ > ^ s v s^ v? J L L U S T K A T I O N I . o lo-i-r nn.l U-short. ILLUSTRATION J Pi'ions of Vonl Si-ins. J r^- L/ ILLUSTRATION K . IVi^irions of Outlines. ^^-, * / /^/ '^I-- 42 ILLUSTRATE Joinin wu.'.'out' /o '/o 1LLUSTRATFON M ILLUSTRATION i ILLU STR ATI ON O ILLUSTRATION P. f ^^x f v O \ <\ Q'S IN TACHYGRAPHY. EXERCISE 1. c / ^ ! v t \ V 7 r J > ^ c t C I* ^ ^ ^ ***^ J -^ \ Ape ache pay gay day be key eke eat ear eel caught ca: rot hot. Tic nigh bigh dew cue view coy cow coin oil ti -ELb egg said guess air fair pair chair reck. 44 1 2. SXjSfcClSE II Do to too tw root (bod foot would could stieoa Sup some such rob knob knock lock rock rrtch Vast fasten late fate reach neap bowl polo shoae In tin c UD seen as lust Las task a.s-k tsta.sk. mist Pat pack king \viih him bis fish I fiM feel vi . c givej kin. Mill meal rill reel sill seal sieve receive g 7 Did deed hid heed / nd reed mi^ meed weave hear. 8 Dip deep rip reap heap kcc| / leap ck sees meek S. By igh ice tiica size hew how new dlpo tubs JO Sign tune town ruse rouse no-se hoys piety fire 11 Open poi-.rn rope pore /'poor tou^h ououyb dudi. |2 Muddy ruddy un . run undono among tou^ua norw. 13 Aid mad c aco debase is^uo cucli Egypt. Deity theism real materially aerial incandor pioi 13 ^Tall fall^Paul hntil shawl toss loss lnws lord EXERCISE HI . ^ /r SHOP.T VOWELS CONTRASTED R r X_C "" < . 14 ? , / ^ X 46 V EXERCISE IV. VARIABLE CUA&ACTEBS. ./"_ 7 y\ ^ 'y -' ? ANGLES Ko ANGLES X \ HALF ANGLES. \j \J r\( C_ c vy \j n EXERCISE V. 47 The Wa Srie The L Series. / I/ '\. VA % 'V c-^ < / i v, v . T r'i "~ J \ x'*~ r ' ~~"1_' F.oal VI r \^ x c- v- ^0 // ^^ c,.^'Li'1 v The S Sonet. Initial Final - >-0 EXERCISE VII. Vowels Omitted. Be go gone could can -come; da .done to of for from should shall, is so some' fr the they that ahem then there may tna'ny ofi Any not unto 'are vro wero ooa lio h;r 3'ou. ivhat .when Where -A .^ ^ \ _.-r \^cS C ^/ x V .^, S^' O/c. 50 EXEiiCJSE VIII. . i ~ / \ 51 EXERCISE IX- Phrase Sign c. EXERCISE X. THE FLOWER. Tennyson. V ' v ' S ' ' -^ e . l'.' ] 'i" L_ ^ ^ t ') r-, 7 I... AGE. -, r 53 EXERCISE XI. St. -John's Gospel, Chap 1. V '^--^~ ~~ ^ 3. A-. l,c" - "~ ! ' ~~> ^" ~X_^ v-. V.-^ ^S*~- ^ - \...^^L - 10 - -' '^- U-r ^rA '- y - 54 EXERCISE XTT. ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ASOTHEB. Mrs. Gilraan \ ^"^ L ^ BRIEFER FORMS. J s. ) c ] \ 6- v^__ * 5 ^__/^J^ ) EXAMPLES. -V Fall fully evil civil - traveller owner usual plcasaro alone. a-? 2 o <-2- ^ e>o ^ v Cnder acceptance article association beautiful l>t-!ong. r- X ' ^ I I ' Consequence exercise following ooiliing anything sensible. V V s " ^V^ ~~^ _ L/ ~ >1 5 U v . c; Cdap. vir ABUREVIATJONS. A. B.. A D., A M, Ace., Chap., Co., D. D, Do. * / ^ / V r ' Dcp, Bag., Mr Math., Nov., P. S, P. M., Kcv. 57 5 WORD SIOXB. And AS been has have this what will, ~ o f ^_ ^ Ve? \ ^^-^-y o s ^ cr^, ^ V' ^~ <, > (^ <.. ^ ^^ o ^-j^A-^cr" PHKASE SIGNS As well as as soon as, as hr&s as we, has beeJt has dona o, O ~^ ^ ^~> Dave been; have wo; have you, Th^ la Will be. I hare,. I'T* We have, we've, Tou have, you've, They have, been; They will bo, you will not be; we shall have been. It is not. t: is not to bo I w not to be supposed And they wera "*^ U As they say AS some say For instance At first At once To be sure. To have been And it is said Which is certain 58 THE POWER OF A WORD Landor. LINDSLEY'S PHONETIC SHORT-HAND. THIS new system has already found its way into all parts of the country. Its amazing simplicity and practicability, everywhere conceded, are ap- plauded most enthusiastically by those who have spent years in a fruitless endeavor to master the intricacies of Phonography. We have room for only a few extracts from among the thousands of commendations that have been sent us. ^ From the Hon. Horace Mann. "If I understand you, you have phonografied Phonography, and therefore have reached the very thing which I had in my mind when I wrote upon it many years ago." From A. Royce Esq., of Cleveland, Ohio. "Your plain literary style (of short-hand) is one of the great things of the age. The more I use it, the better I like it." From Jl. T. E. Clark, Esq. " The fact that I have adopted your system after havfcg reduced several other systems to practice, in seeking for the best, speaks as much as I can express in any other way." From L. M. Guernsey, Ed. True Citizen. " We say without hesitation that the system of Prof. Lindsley * the only practicable one we have met for the ordinary scholar, who cannot devote the best part of life to the study of rapid writing." From Rev. Wm. Pittenger, author of The Great Railroad Adventure. " I have high hopes for Tachygraphy. I find it to be of more and more use to me, and this makes me believe that it will be of use to others. I now |erite it with an ease that I do not think I could ever have attained in Phonog- raphy, although I have not studied it one tenth as much. We only need time and enterprise to make Tachygraphy the common writing of the land." From Rev. A. C. Row, Chaplain and A. A. D. C., Third Div. Fifth Corps. " I am much pleased with the system. I found it of the greatest value on the last marches of our corps, where 1 had to take many notes, and do much writing on horseback, while in motion. I could write legibly in Tachy- graphic characters ; my long-hand I could scarcely read when cold. On the late moves I have been constantly topographing the country as we passed, and have found the art worth more than the labor it cost to master it already." [This was written with only a few weeks' practice of the art, and showi how soon it will repay a man of activity for the labor of acquiring it.] RECOMMENDATIONS . From the Boston Cultivator. " Of the coming great reform in written language, there can be no more doubt than of its universal need, and in future we shall be glad to be counted among its earliest friends." From T. J. Stevens, Mechanicsburg, Penn. " My first impression of your system of Short-Hand was that you had laid Phonography over on its side. It embodies more horizontal, running char- acters than Pitman's System, whose perpendicular stiffness retards the hand in its forward movement." From N. Chandler, of Baltimore, Md. "Ihave ever been desirous of obtaining a knowledge of some system which would not require the vast amount of practice which is indispensable in turning Pitman's System to practical account." From Bryant, Stratton, Co.'s Com. Col. Monthly, Hartford, Conn. " Mr. Lindsley has got down to the root of the difficulty. He has made one of the most difficult subjects one of the simplest. Henceforth no one need try to learn Short-Hand in vain. His system can be learned with lesa labor than the common long-hand." From the New Haven Journal and Courier. " Every editor, ^awyer, and minister knows the advantage of a knowledge of short-hand writing, and this is certainly the best system that ever came under our notice." From Rev. George Hopkins, A. H., Principal of Woodstock Academy. " I am in favor with your system, though I have both used and taught Pitman's." From R. E. Van Gieson, M. D., Englishtown, N. J. " I freely confess that I expected to be disappointed in Tachygraphy. It therefore gives me the more pleasure candidly to acknowledge that I am not only not disappointed, but, on the contrary, agreeably surprised at the sim- plicity and accuracy of your system." From Increase N. Tarbox, Sec. A. M. Ed. Society. " I am satisfied that it (Lindsley's Phonetic Short-Hand) is a clear, sim- ple, and well-devised system ; that it is easily acquired and wisely adapted to meet the wants not only of reporters, but of clergymen, lawyers, and gen- eral students." From J. F. Gould, M. D. ''Your System (of Short-Hand) is much, very much superior to Pit- man's. It is less complicated, more legible, more rapidly written than either Mr. Graham's or Mr. Pitman's Systems. To students, while attend- ing lectures of any kind, it offers great inducements, and will prove of value in the performance of the duties of a professional life." From the, Round Table. " An improved system of Short-hand, called Tachygraphy, has been recently coming into notice, and, if we mistake not, bids fair to supersede the system of Pitman. Certainly very many short-hand writers are abandon- ing Phonography and taking up the new method ; and we do not know of one who has carefully examined its claims but has granted its superiority. " Its main advantages are these : (1) A prevalence of oblique and horizon- tal consonantal characters, thus avoiding that perpendicular stiffness which hinders or wearies the hand so much in writing .Phonography. (2) Most of the vowels are joined to the consonants in writing, in their proper order. . . . Any given extent of vocalization can be far more quickly effected by vowels inserted*, so as to make one running character of the word, than by disjoin- ing vowels ; and, besides, legibility can thus be better secured than by vowel characters which have different meanings according to their varied positions. This is a great gain upon the old method (3) Its use of comparatively few contractions, and its rejection of arbitrary signs." From the Boston Daily Traveller. " Its simplicity and practicability are applauded most enthusiastically by those who have vainly endeavored to master the intricacies of Phonog- raphy." From the Evening Gazette, Boston. u It is acquired with less effort, and more rapidly written, than the old style." From the Nation.- u Many of those who have failed to learn Phonography are embracing the opportunity to learn an easier and more rapid style." From the Sprint-field Republican. "It is the nearest approach yet made towards reducing the art to a practicability which may be acquired without the expenditure of years of labor." From the New York Observer. " The leading improvement is in the vowel signs, which are a system of semi-circles, straight lines, and diamond points, capable of being written in connection with the consonants, so that the whole word can. be written out without detaching the pen from the paper. " Next to this in importance is a selection of consonant form's, obtained after elaborate experiment, which insures that the writing, whether abbre- viated or not, shall not run above or below the line, thus doing away with the reproach of turkey-tracks. It has been found that a certain family of consonants is used so largely that its being entirely represented by horizon- tals would ensure -permanent horizontal direction to the writing. " There are other points of improvement which would be appreciated bj those who have actually grappled with the difficulties of Phonography." TESTIMONIALS O FAVOR OF TACHYGRAPHY. From J. NELSON ASHBURN, Cleveland, Ohio. " A system of writing that will revolutionize our present long style, and establish a new alphabet on a phonetic basis, will confer as great a blessing on us as a nation as ever did Fulton, or Franklin, or Morse." From J. W. PLATT, ESQ., of the State Temperance Journal, Conn. " The grand desideratum seems at last to be found. It (Tachyg- raphy) is certainly a vast simplification of the best system previously "known. We commend the system to the attention of professional men and youth, as one that will bear examination and practical experi- ment." From JAMES EDI, ESQ., Verona, Wis. " I look upon the Am. Primer, by Elias Longley, of Cincinnati, and your (Lindsley's) system of short-hand as models of simplicity." From D. "W. COOK, Southington, Conn. " For his wonderful success in perfecting a system of short-hand writing that is within the capacity of all, Mr. Lindsley will yet receive the blessings of the people of this land. The common style of Tachygraphy is so easy of comprehension, that any one who can learn the common writing can learn this." From IVISON, PHINNET, & Co., per JAS. M. LTJSK. " So far as we are able to judge of the alphabet of Tachygraphy, it is an improvement over any of the existing Phonographic systems." From HON. ABIJAH CATLIN, of Conn. " It (Tachygraphy) is easily reduced to practice, and remarkably accurate and legible." From ABNER ROYCE, Cleveland, Ohio. " As to Tachygraphy, it is the only practicable system of short-hand ever invented, and I have never found yet an old Phonographer who, after giving it a careful examination, did not acknowledge its claims and adopt it." From S. W. WALKER, A. B. " Your style of Tachygraphy will commend itself by its simplicity and easiness to many who would not look at Pitman's or Graham's." From C. A. WAL WORTH, ESQ., of Bryant, Stratton, $ WalwortKs . Business College, Utica, N. T. " As to Phonography, it is a sheer waste of time for ninety-nine in a hundred who study it." From J. F. SPALDING, A. M., Round Hill School, Northampton, Mass. " Let any man fairly examine the two systems (Phonography and Tachygraphy), and I am convinced that he will pronounce Tachyg- raphy immensely superior." UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Los Angeles This book is DUE on the last date stamped below. WAR 9-1961 Form L9-25m-9,'47(A5618)444 UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES LIBRARY Lindsley- L6Uc The compendium 1867 of tachygraphy. - A 000 576 279 4 Z$6 L6i;c 1867 ^l FER US, TEXAS 1 00 ; YTALOG-UE OF TAG I 1 YORAPHIC PUBLICATIONS. THE COMPEXDI5 I'ACHYGRAPHY, fourth edition, re-en- THi I'HIC ALPHABET, to The 9i ....... THE RAPID V. annum, . .... 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