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Rh tion, began a rapidly increasing use of simplified spellings in their office correspondence and advertizing.

Simplified Spelling in Great Britain

In the meantime eminent advocates of better spelling in Great Britain organized (September 10, 1908) the Simplified Spelling Society, with eventual objects identical with those of the Simplified Spelling Board, and to work in simpathy with it. Its membership included Walter William Skeat, its first president, James A. H. Murray, Henry Bradley, F. J. Furnivall, and William Archer, of Great Britain; James W. Bright, Andrew Carnegie, and Thomas R. Lounsbury, of America, all. members of the Simplified Spelling Board; Gilbert Murray, J. W. Mackail, and A. S. Napier, professor of English, Oxford; H. C. K. Wyld, professor of English, Liverpool; William Ramsay, James Bryce, H. Stanley Jevons, Edward Dowden, Walter Leaf, G. C. Moore Smith, Frederick Pollock, Alfred W. Pollard, Walter Ripman, and many other men of distinction in scolarship, letters, and public life.

 S. S. S. Makes Rapid Hedway

The Society began at once an activ propaganda, issuing many pamflets and circulars, and publishing a monthly magazine, the Pioneer of Simplified Spelling. Its membership rapidly increast, many prominent scool men and women enthusiastically enlisting for the reform. Michael E. Sadler, vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds; H. G. Wells, the novelist; Daniel Jones; G. B. Hunter, bilder of the "Mauretania" ; W. H. Rouse, hedmaster of Perse Grammar Scool, Cambridge; and W. Temple, hedmaster of Repton Grammar Scool, wer notable recruits.