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IMpijpf^ 256 the Publishers* Gitcular ti...
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UPRIGHT PENMANSHIP . AS REQUIRED IN THE GOVERNMENT EXAMINATIONS * ¦ - — : — JAGEBON'p NEW STYLE VERTICAL WRITING COPY BOOKS . llTESSRS . SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON & CO . have much pleasure in announcing that they have jjJL . completed arrangements for the immediate production of the above series of COPY BOOKS . be The produced I * xates are in being the very engraved highest on sty Copper le . The by the First best Sebies Engraver will consist of the of day Eight , and the Books Copy * of Books which will the I following 1 . First is a descri Size ption : E asy Text-Hand ; right lines , simple curves * , t easy letters , and short easy words . I 2 . First Size : More Complex Letters , easy words , more I difficult words , involving all the alphabet . I 3 . Second Size : Small Text-hand ; short sentences , simple I definitions of familiar words * I 4 . Second Size : Proper Nances ; Girls' names in upper lines , I with one uniform capital letter . Boys' names in lower ljnes , with one uniform capital letter . I 5 . Third Size : Small Round-Hand ; Introduction to Small-I Hand in Geographical series . I 6 . Third Size : Introduction to Small-Hand ; figure practice , I dates given twice in each line . 1 7 . Fourth Size : Small-Hand ( Bold ); Proverbs and Maxims , I two rulings on each page . Full and partial guiding lines . I 8 . Fifth Size : Small-Hand ( Finishing ); Definitions in the jj Arts and Sciences . Three rulings in each page . Full , partial , and no guiding lines . PRICE TWOPENCE EACH . OPINION OF THE PRESS . j to * There whether is much Mr . to Jackson "be said the in favour iler of of upri this ght series instead of of sloping books penmanshi in vertica p . l cali We are h not is prepared correct in his say contention that the upri , ght comp style 5 s most in harmony copy with physiological princi grap ples y , , but there cannot be a question that it is more consistent than the old oblique writing with the training of the hand in drawing and shorthand ; and both the artist and the shorthand writer would have reason to be upri thankful write ght phonograp penmanshi for being hy p from feels naturall the that beg y , he and inning has , while 7 been taug many p ht laced to shorthand write at a disadvantage in the writers uprig ! ht do by position the having sam . e , been Many every taught man artists to who drift slope has into his to j penmanshi advantages p of from legib the ility ri , g speed ht to of the penmanshi left . Mr p . , and Jackson artistic claims superiority for this . method He says over that slop with ing writing its advan the - tages it has no disadvantages ; it is more easily taught , more quickly acquired , and covers less ground , while there is greater bodily ease and less fatigue at the work . The author certainly makes out a strong case for his system , and he teaches it logically and systematically . His infant exercises—the " strokes ancl size between pothooks his " of largest his system handwriting —are upright and his , and smallest there . is The practicall exercises y no are difference really very but attractive the difference . The of writing and grace is . , indeed All the , quite -worl beauti d knows ful . that There a large are number \ n it all of the peop elements le write of verticall freedom y , , speed and yet , perfec there t legibility has been , no vertical teaching in our schools The copy-books are admirably got up . ' From the School Boaud Chronicle , Feb . 12 . I London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , SEARLE & RIVINGTON , I c Crown Buildings , 188 Fleet Street , fflC . ,, ' _ * i ^* si
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1887, page 256, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031887/page/46/
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