On the list of stats for this website, a post I did on MacLean's compendiums a couple of years ago gets a surprising number of visits, every week, week after week. I actually found a compendium in a box I was sorting through after the flood, not mine, but my brother's, from Grade 5.
It starts with the correct way to sit, to place your arm, to angle the paper. In fact the whole compendium is not just about the correct way to write, but how to conduct yourself as a good person, how to write nice thank you letters, get well letters, all in a beautifully smooth hand. If someone hadn't commented on MacLean himself, that he appeared at schools and did magic tricks, I would find this sort of teaching unbearable. As it was, out in Victoria, he never came to our school and we were left with the rules. I was an earnest student, tried hard to have perfect writing. My brother clearly approached it all with a sense of irony.
It looks sort of asemic to me.