stopped. The reproducer may also be moved back so as to repeat any matter that was not fully understood. When a sentence is taken it is transcribed on the typewriter, the phonograph being stopped in the meantime, and so the letters are completed in this way.
Of course the phonograph dispenses with the shorthand, but the unwieldiness of the machine and its initial expense, together with the difficulties of adjusting the needles for making and reading the records, all present bars to its universal adoption. So far as we have seen there is no fear of the stenographer being superseded by the phonograph. Many court and congressional reporters, however, use the phonograph for transcribing purposes, since the transcript may be dictated direct into the machine and then handed over to several typists to be typewritten. In this way much time is saved, as all the court reporter has to do is to read his notes as rapidly as he possibly can into the recording machine. To the court stenographer, or the trained dictator, the phonograph is a very valuable factor in economizing time. The phonograph may also be made most useful for increasing speed in shorthand.
THE LAW STENOGRAPHER.
The duties of the stenographer in a legal office generally call for a higher speed, both in shorthand and typewriting, than the commercial stenographer,
