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Paper, 8vo. pp. 100. 50 cents THE ELEMENTS OF TACHYGRAPHY. Illustrating the First Principles of the Art, with their adaptation to the Wants of Literary Men. Designed as a Text-Book for Classes and for Private Instruction. By David Philip Lindsley. Second edition. Boston: Otis Clapp, 3 Beacon Street. 1871. 12mo. pp. 102, and 20 pages of lithographs. Half cloth, $1.50. Full cloth, $2.00. The author offers this as a practical work for those who wish to gain great speed in writing with the least labor. He regards it as specially adapted to the use of elergymen in writing sermons. This system makes use of the same signs that are used in Phonography; but they do not represent in all cases the same sounds, and are connected by vowel signs, so that the writing may be performed more readily, and is more easily read afterwards, and is thus made to answer the purpose of full script in writings that are to be preserved. 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The Church the Organic outgrowth of the Life-giving and The Continuity of Christ's Kingdom in History is the Continuity of the Spirit and Life, rather than of the § 3. The Reading of Sermons in the Pulpit, Various advantages of it as an occasional method of preaching. It should not be indiscriminately con- demned. It may be more or less useful as it is more or less intermingled with extempore and memoriter preaching. It should not be the general method of preaching. Evils of it as the general method. Rules for the public reading of sermons. Some men have a call to preach memoriter. The majority of preachers may wisely cultivate the power |