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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[October, 
W fi NEST PENHWSHIPp^gsHEt) iHp^OIUD, 
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The editor of Detnorest’s Monthly , I 
N. Y„ in recommending this system 
to ladies, says: 
•' There is no more sure test of re¬ 
finement than an elegant handwriting, 
and there is no accomplishment more 
rare, because unless acquired in youth, 
it is difficult to attain it in later years. 
A most useful aid to the acquisitiou 
of a clear, beautiful style of penman¬ 
ship is Gaskell’s Compendium. TVe 
heartily recommend it as invaluable 
in the formation of a handsome style 
of handwriting.” 
The Pall Mall Gazette, London, Eng¬ 
land, says: 
“ Good penmanship is very desira¬ 
ble in whatever station in life you are 
placed, and we are pleased to note 
that the system of American penman¬ 
ship introduced by Prof. G. A. Gaskell, 
of the United States, is very popular 
in London, and is used in many of the 
leading commercial houses. It is 
called ‘ Gaskeil’s Compendium,’ and 
is simpler and more easily learned, 
and may be written with greater ease 
and rapidity than any of the old 
styles.” 
„ ™s 3 A te , achi , ng , 8 ??. tem was prepared in 1873, and has since had a sale of 
nearly two hundred thousand in the United States, Canada. England, and 
Australia. It is the only method that has been successful in accomplishing 
results. By means of CA8 K EBIj’S COMPENDIUM any young manor 
woman can become a rapid and beautiful writer, by home or office practice at 
odd hours, without a teacher. It gives a full Self-Teaching Course, complete 
and In one package: will last a life-time. It consists of Business, duties’ 
and Ornamental Penmanship, in all varieties, Movement Ex¬ 
ercises, Alphabets, l-edger Headings, Bills, Model Signatures. 
_Corresponding htyles. Album Work, Card-Writing, Peu-Draw- 
ishing, etc., etc. On this page we give a few specimens, showfng’the improvement^"some^who’hS^uMsd^t.^h^^tenmaiPs 
their P handwrft?ng. nt We’b^t"f^^f^t^L^lr^ 631 ttoe writers from tomonth.also photo-enlr^Vc^folf 
' The above was my genuine handwriting before I had seen 1 GASKELL’S COMPENDIUM,* which I 
received March 11,1881. I have been practising from it for one year, and you will not fail to see the improvement 
made by faithful application,”—II. R. Vincent, New Almaden, California. 
“ This is a specimen of my penmanship at present, 
after practising from ‘ GASKELL’S COMPEN¬ 
DIUM,’ my only teacher or instructions. 1 am 
eighteen years old.”— H. R. Vincent, New Almaden, 
California. 
Such a handwriting as Mr. Vincent now writes is 
worth to him at least one thousand five hundred dollars 
a year , and he can easily get that salary in any large 
City, 
S. C. Malone, Fairmount, IV. Va.. is the country-boy who made with 
an ordinary steel pen the wonderful Tribute to President Garfield, show¬ 
ing in pictures his progress from a poor boy driving the horses of a canal 
boat to the presidency of the United States. His old style is given below t. 
The above is a correct portrait and autograph of the finest penman 
in the South. Mr. Scarborough is now professor of penmanship in the 
Business College at Knoxville, Tenn. This is his old hand: 
Two beautifully illustrated numbers of the Penman’s Gazette, giving full particulars, will be sent free to every reader of this who will write 
for them at once. The price of Gaskell’s Compendium is one dollar, and I will mail a copy, post-paid, anywhere on receipt of that sum. Address 
PROF. G. A. GASKELL, Box 1534, New fork City Post-Office, N. V. 
Mr. Gaskell is the proprietor of the Jersey City Business College, across the river from New York, and his credit is good for a hundred thousand 
dollars. The American Agriculturist or any other first-class paper acquainted with him will tell you that he is pepfectly responsible and honorable. 
The Compendium is sold in England by Trubner & Co., Booksellers* 57 and 59, Ludgate Hill. London ; in New York by I). Appleton & Co., and.' 
American News Co.; Chicago, S. C. Griggs & Co.; Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co.; San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & Co.; PQpfclhiid, Oregon-, 
J. K. Gill & Co. 
