SHORTHAND.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13714, 2 October 1908, Page 7

SHORTHAND.

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tailed Irom'Tiro, the freedjiian of Cicero, who improved uie ait i-i i.iii'i iliand wntlirg very coiisidtrab.y. "lli-t-c iior=i-? con■auued in nof till itie middle of the eleventh centuiy. In th- year 174/ the hauled and ingenious laip.uUr piibiisned at Paris this Alphab.tum Tironi.iiniin, with a great number ul i.olu-, or nunkr-., lor the, 4'Hert-iit> pails oi ip?.. >.h. aim mi-.-, for' ai, |iiinujr the an ot ■ writing m ih.i.e kind of. notes-." .>oiiie lurtlna- light on tbi>, interest ini; i»iit)j'-ti "shed U\ an article writ tin by >n Edward Malind- ihoiiip.von, principal librarian of toy Uritiuh -Mi-ieum. lor ilic huL-.vclu(M-.'iiia Jfritamiica. " Evidence of UllS "nv of taehygl aptly, or .-Iloltb ill'l, among the Kouiau-. lie sats, "*, i.. I (: - found in the writings of authors under j Hit: Empire. It, a j.pea is iu iiave bin taught in M-lioolft, alio, anions oth-ih, the l-.iiij»vi.>r in us ).- .-aid to liavj b en skilful in Uiis style of writing, humus lias btvn named as the inventor of a large collection of s.lioriiaii.l .;Vinbo'.v. but linn.- gene tally Cicero's lleuiuiaii, .M. Tllliilin liro, >'•> regarded as lit?'author of thes-j .vigi.i... which vommoidy bear the title of ' Xotae Tiloiiiaua-.'" . 'tin- shoHliau.l "utcls:, no tan.-,, neie well trained in ih- no- of lb us nol f, and in the caily Christian Unit, ucl'f hugely employed' m taking •lowii, j|i- «.,r,|s of ihe l>i.-I|ij|is of die Church' which M-re preach-d in urinous or spok-n in cotim-i..-, and in recording la.-lfi and lives «.f maiivin. [ll th- Etat.k i.-.lt Empire tli-.- not-.., wci r tisofl j„ s ,giiaUiis or siihhcripitoi.K of charters, and later, in iJie ninth jmd *arlv temh eenturir, lb-.'*' "He adopted by tiiJ levis-i* and an' notaior. ..I tli,- t- At .v „f mss:. (if ,] lM> p. nod .-.Vo are >cv ral .Ms*. containing ihc I .jailer in llnt,i- chaiacl.is, which. 11 has ben euggc.-t J. „,,. „,;,,,,„ f.„ pai-n.e a! a tini- when a fi.-h impu'i.c had been given to the use of shorthand in the s-1 vice of litelature. J |,.. exM-ncc also of volum.r, containing coiiect'ioia, of lh«- iironiait notes .-„„| „,iticu at t'hfc, tun., points i„ ,-, teiiij«.ialv r.iivai th•ml<„ appear to'havi. i;0.i. ; '0,.1. of g-n-ral "*i\ however, almost immedial, h ;)il . y tb». althoii U h tit ■ ±-vhit-ii cas-h. i ||. |, .-,. hi i,uU,ci-ipin.iis to diaiKi,,. ih'v ling.reil »" late as the beginniii- ..( mittuv."

Jhe manuscript at ih,. Brit , !i .Me.-e,,,,, >' imv to one acpiainted will, i ll(J ,i eni •".'""-ins t« 'b_- lather of ;I ,-, l'l'ei- than „f Miorthaud. Thott-rl, in eon.- ;|(> tJll . ~( . ,„m iwllvi; >ilo.-lr.i;ions -lit,.-, the Tiionian .-vm'lj,,,. »'"•"; a ..tnkin- lik.-,,.-.v.« tl , , |i« »ntltnr.> familiar- to ,|J-e followers of Pit.,,,;,,,, ejoscr examination of t |, em ;„ ,| le - >|l)k shows t| la , ,| ICJ .. III this thev icsemble the ear best l-.ngly.lt sy.dems. sU eh as I), jj,,,,,. 'hy l!,to|,t's Ch.-.ia.;u-is (1588). and JMe.Unless Ante of Ijr.ichygiaphie '1590). Almost cvuy word in t'he language was provided with an ai bit ran- sign, ami onlv with ;, gigantic uieiiioiy "and by unicuiil fiug labour could one acqitiiv a. practical knowledge of sm-h methods. Whether .M. Tullius Tiro wa< able, bv los system. t» " tak- dawn" ihe ot his patron delivered iu the Eoiuni or ihe. Curia iv „, K .„ ,„ doubt, though lint i.v iMjvviLdy, liav- acted as an amaiiiienvis tu the j.,eat ,„ a u,r and author.

How far back the practice of shorthand «ritin<- exist..! among the Un-kv. who w,te ptobably ihc jMedeeessotr, of ih- Koinaiiv in the nit, theie is notliinto show, for although c<ilain wolds of Diogenes have bcu taken to imply that .\t-nophnu wiole shorlhaud notes of the le.ttir.s of Socrates, yet a. -imilar express-ion in auollicr par-a-e. which will uot'b-ar ihiv m.-anin-.'. ivikli-i:. it haidly po»vil,l L . ,(,;,{ tachygraphy is re lened to. The first, undoubted men tion of a Gicck shoithand wiit-r oecuis in 19.) A.11.. iu a letter of Kluviu.i I'hilos■iratuv. Hut'lhere appear i>> b- no v. iv anci nl F-jH.-i.iiii' lis of Creek to in ex'v; ( iice. f..i it i» denied that ceit.iiu not.- .iii-I in-.-iipt ions iu the papyii d.it int: It the v,;,oiid teutuiy H.C. which It.tie been put foiw.i,,) ~v such, are shoit hand at all. Ihe extant examples datl» only fiom Ih- tenth ceiitmy. and aiihuv almost < "lit- inpoiary with the MS. which l|,e liiiiivh Museum h.w ju-t a. ipiii.il.