SHORTHAND.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 152, 24 December 1885, Page 3

SHORTHAND.

«. TO THE BDITOB. Sir— lf Mr. Bodley bad oarefully road the letters on shorthand whioh have appeared in your paper, he wonld have seen that I only wrote one letter, that reoommendinif the acquirement of the SloanDuployan system, and neither referrod to him or Pitman's system in any way. Ho says the London reviewers condemned the Byatem as only oapable of 100 words a rainuto. Lot us qnoto gome of tho London roviowa. Tho St. Panoraa Gazotte (the official organ of the London Sohool Board) Bays :—" Sloan's Dnployan cannot be too highly landed. It thoroughly removes al'a 1 ' difficulties in acquiring the at t. Wo have perused the ' Insteaotor' oarefnlly onoe through, and even this has givon us some knowledge of shorthand not already po3Beased. Children even osn easily aoquiro it." Space will not permit, or I oonld quote from many journals in favour of the system. Hear now the evidenoo of Mr. James Bobie, of Glasgow, Hhorthand instructor to the Crosamyloof Day Board Sohool, the Queen's Park Day Board School, the John-street EveniDg Board Sohool, Bridgoton, the Partiok Young Men's Christian Assooiation, Glasgow, Ac , ansxperienoed toaoher of Pitman's system and professional reporter:— "l find, after a thorough comparison of tho two pyatema, that the Sloan Dnployan is not only far eimpler, but also mnch briefor and more legible, and can undoubtedly bo acquired in a mere fraction of the time and mental and physical labour required for the acquisition of Pitman's phonography." Again Mr. 8. A. Smith, of tho Cheltenham Academy of Shorthand (thirteen years a- teaoher of Pitman's Bystom) says: — "I havo no hesitation in deolaring that I believe the Sloan Dnployan to bo the best system of shorthand oxtant." With regard to Mr. Crerar, the Sloan Duployan Phonographic Journal explains that his addroßS wai wrongly given through a misapprehension. His oorreot address is 25, Adam-atreet, Portman-eqaare. He has osed the system very suooetafully. I could say a great deal more on the subjeot, but space will not permit. I am, &0., Sloan-Ddployk. 20th Deoember.