2 MARCH 1907, Page 25

Easy Shorthand. By Sir Edward Clarke, K.C. (Simpkin, Marshall, and

Co. ls. net.)---Sir Edward Clarke explains how he learnt this system—invented, as he afterwards found, by Samuel Taylor in 1786—at school, and how useful it has been to him. We do not feel competent to compare it with other methods. But if any one can use it to as much advantage in practical life as Sir Edward has done, he will have good reason to be thankful.