text:  By this new species of shorthand we might have embodied this very article in half a dozen sprightly etchings! But as the hapless inventor of the first great art of printing incurred among his astounded contemporaries the opprobrium of being in compact with the evil one (whence probably the familiar appellation of printers' devils ) it behoves the early practitioners of the new art to look to their reputations! By economizing the time of the public they may squander their own good repute