18th Aug. Next month in London will be celebrated the Diamoud' Jubilee—or the Sexagenary, as its promoters prefer to call it—of the system of shorthand known all over the world as Phouography. Unfortunately, the inventor of the system, Sir Isaac Pitman, has not lived ' to participate in' a commemoration go ° interesting and unique, for he died in the early part.of this year: after a life of labour and abnegation of self which has conferred. upon his fellow-men advantages which are as widespread as they are often thoughtlessly. enjoyed... He. first published his system of shorthand in the year the Queen came to the ''bronc, and thus-made possible the great -progress of the newspaper Press, the adequate and accurate record of Parliament and the utterances of great speakers, the important atid delicate reporting of ile law, and the thousand-and-one other useful' purposes to
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.