The bibliography of shorthand / by John Westby-Gibson.

  • Westby-Gibson, John, 1823-1892.
Date:
1887
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    Bright Timothy—continued. Thompson Cooper, F.S.A., in “ Dictionary of National Biography,” vol. vi, 1886. A Monograph of Timothy Bright. Paper prepared for the International Shorthand Congress of 1887, with illus- trations of his System of Arbitraries, and his three attempts to form an Alphabet, by Dr Westby Gibson. For further particulars of Dr. Bright and his Works, see Hunter’s ad- ditions to Wood’s Athen. Ox. (Bliss) ii., 174. Hunter’s Hallamshire, 1819, p. 60 ; Hunter’s South Yorkshire, i., p. 365 ; N. & Q-, 1st series, vii., 407 ; xi., 352 ; 2nd series, ii., 393 I 5th series, iv., 429 ; and Thoresby’s Leeds, p. 235. . See International Shorthand Con- gress,—Tercentenary of Modern Short- hand,—the first circular of which was designedly dated March 30, 1886, exactly 300 years after March 30, 1586, date of Bright’s MS. of the Book of Titus. Bristow Horatio, a Teacher of Penman- ship, in Boston and Philadelphia (for- merly of Regent street, London). He taught his own system of shorthand in America, 1832. British and Colonial Printer and Sta- tioner. A Shorthand Celebration, May, 1886. British Almanack for 1887. History and Present Position of Shorthand, by W. E. A. Axon. British Banner. On Shorthand in Nor- way, April 16, 1851- British Encyclopaedia (Nicholson’s). 1809. Article on Shorthand, with des- cription of Byrom’s System. British (The) Phonographer. A monthly magazine of Jones s Adaptation of Pho- nography. British Shorthand (The) ; combining simplicity, brevity, and perspicuity. By which any person may teach himself the useful art of Shorthand Writing in an incredibly short space of time without the aid of a master! And will enable him with a little practice to follow a speaker through all the lab)n'inths of a learned discourse. London : G. Berger, British Shorthand (The)—continued. Holywell Street, Strand, and George Odell, 18 Princes Street, Cavendish Street, 1839. [8vo., 24 pp., 5 plates, 2s.] (Another Edition.) 1840. 8vo. 2s. British Shorthand (The). Gurney’s Popular System, &c., 1843. (See Gurney’s Popular System of Shorthand simplified and improved, &c., 1866, of which this was the first edition.) Broderick John T., Editor of the En- lightener, Brooklyn, N. York, 1886. See the Enlightener. Brooke Henry S. On Phonography, in Phenotypic Journal, Sept., 1843. Broomell Geo. D. On Phonetic Spelling. A paper read before the Principals’ Asso- ciation, Chicago, U.S.A., by Mr Geo. D. Broomell, of the Central High School. Phonetic Journal, 1878, p. 61 ; and No. 333 of the Spelling Reform Tracts. Brown & Holland Shorthand News. Chicago the Centre of the Shorthand World. Chicago : Brown & Holland Shorthand News Company, 51 and 53 Dearborn Street. No. i. March, 1882. 8vo. 20 cents, monthly. [The word “ Shorthand ” on the title is indicated by a human hand, made very dumpy,— a short hand.] Brown C. J. Lessons in Shorthand founded on Gray’s Lightning Method. Improved and arranged by C. J. Brown, principal of the commercial department of Chamberlain institute. Randolph, N.Y. Smith & Lockwood, printers, “Register” printing house. 1874. [4 pp. & 16 plates.] Brown Charles T. The Automatic Folio Register. Paper read at the Interna- tional Convention of Shorthand Writers, Chicago, 1881. Brown David. The New Invention. . . . by His Majesties Scribe. St. Andrews, 1622. Although placed among short- hand works this book is on calligraphy only. See Memoir by Dr Westby Gibson in “ National Dictionary of Biography,” 1886. Brown D. S. Abbreviations. In Brown’s