AN ARGUMENT FOR VERTICAL HANDWRITING. 87 



In England, I believe, 

 Prof. John Jackson is the 

 pioneer in the new style of 

 writing ; and now, so much 

 favor has it found over 

 there, by reason of its su- 

 perior legibility, that the 

 examiners require its use in 

 all branches of the civil 

 service. Sampson Low & 

 Company, London, have 

 published Prof. Jackson's 

 copy-books, which have had 

 a wide sale in England. 

 Many English schools have 

 adopted them and require 

 their exclusive use. On 

 the Continent the Austrian 

 schools lead in approval 

 and support of vertical 

 chirography, though many 

 of the more progressive 

 German schools have taken 

 up this system and are en- 

 thusiastic in its praise. As 

 yet, I believe, no American 

 publishers have issued a 

 series of copy-books with 

 the upright letters, though 

 one house contemplates it 

 in the near future. 



From long and careful 

 observation, I think every 

 teacher of a beginner's class 

 in school will bear witness 

 to the fact that the first at- 

 tempts of a new pupil with 

 pen or pencil are nearly 

 perpendicular, and that it 

 is only by keeping constant- 

 ly at him that the child 

 manages to make his let- 

 ters at the required slant 

 of fifty-two degrees. Even 

 then, after all his work 

 with exaggerated copies 



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