course this sort of practice may, and should, if possible, be varied by writing from some one's dictation."
PRACTICE AND DICTATION MATTER.
The student desiring high speed must practice regularly and ceaselessly day after day. Get a good, patient reader if possible. If that is out of the question utilize a phonograph, having previously prepared your records. If even a phonograph is not available, practice in the way suggested in the previous chapter, but in every case make your practice regular and not intermittent. Copying from correctly written shorthand is very useful in order to acquire a neat, symmetrical and legible style. The kind of matter to be dictated or written should be varied, so as to give as large and complete a range of language as possible.
Mr. W. Whitford, Medical Reporter of Chicago, in a letter written for a symposium, called "How Long?" stated: "I wrote Paley's Evidences of Christianity, a good deal of the Bible, and many sermons from dictation, Sidercal Heavens, Lectures on Astronomy, Macaulay's Essays, The Intellectual Development of Europe, Civil Policy of America, Charles Dickens' Works, selections from Washington Irving, Carlyle, and Goethe, three volumes of the Manchester Science Lectures, works on Geology, proceedings of railways, medical, dental and pharmaceutical conventions, as well as articles from
