Excerpt from The Modern Stenographer: A Complete System of Light-Line Phonography, Being a Plain and Practical Method for Acquiring a Perfect, Knowledge of the Principles of the Best Phonetic Short-Hand The system presented in these pages has for many years been in actual use, not only by the author, but by other stenographers thoroughly competent to test its value. It has been exhaustively tried in all the varied branches of stenographic work, and has been shown to possess unequaled advantages in every particular. It has been found to meet all the demands of verbatim reporting, both in point of speed and legibility.