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Excerpt from Style-Book of Business English: Designed for Use in Business Courses, Regents' and Teachers' Examinations Time and again the teaching of English style has been attempted and abandoned in commercial courses on account of its meager results. This book is designed to overcome that difficulty. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but has for its purpose to remedy many of the errors in English made by beginners in correspondence and in typewriting. Numerous tests given to pupils on entering commercial courses where no special attention was given to correspondence showed a deficiency of about fifty per cent. and on finishing the course about forty per cent. of the information given in this work, although it contains only the absolutely essential in business. Many books have been designed to overcome this deficiency, but none have been presented in a manner useful in commercial courses, except with a special teacher. The attempt to teach formal grammar in short commercial-English courses has been the principal cause of previous failures. Instruction in business English, hitherto given without a special teacher, has always been comparatively unproductive. Hence, this automatic method, which requires practically no extra time in direct instruction and dispenses entirely with the special teacher. This, the fourth edition, has been specially revised and enlarged with a view of enabling students and teachers to pass Regents' and Educational Board examinations in shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping, and commercial English. Attention is called to the fact that all such examinations are largely composed of difficult business English. Those who wish to qualify as secretaries will find this book especially useful. The card-system and record-filing system, for the first time in text-book making, have been worked into lesson and examination form; its necessity in commercial classes can hardly be overrated. For assistance in this part the author is greatly indebted to Mr. R. E. Rose, New York manager of the Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.