what a number you have forgotten, if you have not kept up frequent reviews. A careful review, occasionally, will give you greater fluency, better outlines, better work, greater ease in reading, will save questioning the teacher, promote self-reliance, enlarge your vocabulary and consequently increase speed.
HOW TO WRITE THE LONG WORDS.
Mr. David Wolfe Brown, in his clever book on "The Factors of Shorthand Speed," writes: "If the young phonographer could only write all the words as promptly and rapidly as he can write some, how smooth his pathway would be."
Herein lies the whole secret of rapid shorthand writing—how to write the long words. It is not so much the slowness of the hand as the hesitation in thinking of the outline of a new or uncommon word, that causes the stenographer to fall behind the dictator. The only remedy for this was detailed under the preceding heading, with the further injunction that, in the case of long words, you must "divide and conquer."
Gregg Shorthand is especially adapted for writing in syllables. If the student, on hearing an uncommon word, will divide it into syllables, and write two, or at most three, syllables of each word, writing consonants and vowels in regular order, he will find that the hard words will be made easy to write. The
