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 walk and every hedge full of nosegays, I lost myself with a great deal of pleasure among several thickets and bushes, that were filled with a variety of birds and an agreeable confusion of notes, which formed the pleasantest scene in the world to me, who had passed a whole winter in noise and smoke.

Nothing more fully attests the utility of shorthand writing than the rapidity with which it has grown into use during the past few years. Fifty years ago a skilled shorthand writer was rare, and the art was looked upon as a sort of mystery, and so formidable of attainment as to deter all but the most courageous from attempting to fathom its mysteries.

To write the latter extract, the keys and spacer of a typewriting machine must be struck 150 times according to Stenotype; and 344 times according to the ordinary method. To write the same according to Pitman's phonography, 221 motions of the hand or pen are required; Munson's system 195, and Graham's 193. In the above extract, Stenotypy has a gain of 67 motions over Pitman's phonography, 41 over Munson's and 39 over Graham's. The gain of Stenotypy is therefore a mathematical fact.

From "The Guardian."

There is no virtue so truly great and God-like as justice. Most of the other virtues are the virtues of created beings or accommodated to our nature as we are men. Justice