Someone's gotta hat's-off to the classics, and profess the dead arts. Better yet: revive them. Once upon a time I was fascinated by shorthand. Many years later, I learned it. It all began with a dusty shelf in an ed school library, and a yellowing copy of this venerable tome. Purveyors of pen and ink, have at! The charms of shorthand are many. Gregg's the best system ever devised (Pittmaniacs be damned!), and Anniversary rules! Want to write like the wind and turn heads while doing it? Devour this book.