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UPRIGHT OR SLOPING WRITING—WHICH?
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writing. Then as to economy in ordinary correspondence and manuscript what clergyman, lawyer, merchant, student, clerk, has

Fig. 14

not resorted to the Vertical Style again and again when wishing to compress his writing into the smallest possible space?

The truth is that sloping induces and begets sprawling whilst the upright demands contraction. Take as an independent test a batch