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THE PALMS' THEORY. The following letters recently appeared in the Referee in continuation of the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy to which we referred recently-
it is cbrious that he believed that much time must pass before the value of his works could be appreciated. An intense dasice for posthumous fame in the burden An absolute con- Sonnets."" fidence in the grandeur of that fame when some line had passed" is ana of their most striking features.
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No man who has a knowledge of, the conditions of the theatres in Elizabeth's reign, at the plays which were produced, Sir,-Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence's of the audiences which frequented then, fria onslaught upon your correspon- can belave that the dramas, as we know dents is no answer to my questions and them. if performed in the theatres would proves nothing except that his omnis have had the remotest chance of success. : CHINESE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT einer does not include even a rudiment. There is an edition of Hamlet," pub- ary knowledge of common civility, Eshed as late as 1886, in which the stato. Toubt he was stung by the ridiculous moot is profised that the portions printed analogy of my eryptogram showing that between Inverted commas are omitted in "Sims " wrote the Psalms. It was public representation. All the great meant as a reductio ad absurdum proof speeches which we value are in this edi of the utter worthlessness of his-aral tion so printed. attrs-pet discoveries of cryptograms disclosing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. It was demonstrated, I admit, with a certain nount of levity, as the only way of answering Sir Edwin Dur.
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The cryptogram by E. V. Turner is in like reasoning, Milton thust be rejected BOARD will be held in the Council Chan another class altogether, and when it as the author of Paradise Lost," Bacca baz on WEDNESDAY, the 6h day was submitted in all seriousness to did not write more pitiable doggerel then committee of which I was a member I Milton's paraphrase of Paalm vii., which gave inany weeks to study and analyse begins the its structure and luis, hat only to find that the results obtained favourable to these claims were duc, more or less, to manipulation of the basic figures.
However, if Dagmet's excellent sug gration of a council is carried out nud the question of authorship is treated as
Lord, my God, to Thee. I fy Save me and secure me under Thy protection while I ery Lest as a lion (and no wonder), He haste to tear my soul asunder, Tearing, and no rescue nigh. Pope says that Shakespeare" as he certainly written better, so he has, per hans, written worse than any other.". The worst of Bacon's paraphrasca, (some.
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There is another aspect of the same argument. The late Professor Churton Collins painted out that Shakespeare's pre-eminence in prose was as great se in poetry. Hamlet's speech to Guildenstern Hungkang, September 30, 1912. and Rosencrantz in Act II, Soene 2, commending "I will tell you why i one of the finest spéciments extant of majestic English. As in niso, though, in very different style, the speech of Henry V, to Bates and Wiliams in det. IV., Scene 1, commencing | 59. If
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Banely, that the Stratford Shakespeare during his lifetime was recognised as the sible to believe that a man who could able in the Hostels is loited and M. HANUE
author of the plays issued under the write such prose would confine himself students not exatapted by special resolution.
Forms may be obtained of the Registrar Bername of William Shakespeare. There is to the small portions of the plays which of the Coutail are required to reside Hongkong, September 23, 1912. 1197 no evidence to support this assumption have come dows to us. Where are Tark
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