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"And in the midst thou stand'et parallelism which cannot be merely as if some mystery thou didst.*** Boxidental. Of course they may If, then, the actor of Stratford-both have copied from the SIDO THE SHAKESPEARE on-Avon was not the author of the sources, classical, harticoltural and
CONTROVERSY.
plays, wo naturally ask who there scientific, or the one from the other. was at the time who had the ability. In some cases even this sooms only the knowledge, the literary akill to makeshift and not an explanation, The employees in the office of (Continued from page 8.) ; write these plays. Had such | Of all these cages of parallelism the Nippon Yusen KaishainONSIGNEES of Cargo
wast thou for concealment or is the one which perhaps arouses west Hongkong were all back at work! TENSES OF CAR are hereby with this Apostle Jahin. We would own name? Was he given to hood-suspicion is that of parallelism com-to-day. On enquiry from the being landed at their risk Into the Da expect him to establish the winking the public?
bined with common error. In the assistant manager, it was learnt | downe of the Hongkong and Kowloon authority of this Gospel by a simple Undoubtedly there is one man Advancement of Learning Bacam that a telegram had been received Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd., statement, I learned it from, why can be fitted to fulfil the roll of says Is not the opinion of from Mr. Y. Yamamoto, the Mana- at Kowloon, whence and for from the
alycarp whe learned it from the author of the Shakespeare plays Aristotle worthy to be regarded, ger of the local branch who is now Apoatte himself. But does he better than anybody else. This is where be saith, that young men are in Tokyo, which gave grounds for resort to anything like this? Not Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam. He not fit auditors of moral philosophy, the belief that the president and at all. "Thero must be four was born in 1661. When he was because they are not settled from directors of the company had inti- Gospels, he says, because there are twelve years old he went to Cam- the builing heat of their affections, favourably the complaints of the mated their intention to consider four quarters to the world and four bridge. In 1576 he went abroad or attempered by time and experi-shore employees general winds. The Cherubim also and did not return to England till once.
with regard are four-faced and therefore there his father's death in 1579, when,
Shakespeare'snya :-
to their privileges having been infringed. Though the text of inust be four Gospels. Not much being in straightored circut-
Mr. Yamamoto's message was not wonder that we attach little import.stances, he took to the study of the
disclosed, the assistant manager ance to the statements of Irenaeus law and became a rember of Gmy's In clear contradiction of tlu Inn. During the whale of Eliza
stated: "I feel sure everything is working towards our requirements, evidence, the Fourth Gospel was both's reign he seems to have lund.
otherwise. Mr. Yamamoto would received by later ages 35 an little employment and to have In both cases Aristotle is misquoted. not have sent his message, in which Apostolic production. There may solicited Government employment It was political philosophy, not he advised us to return to our have been, however, and probably in vain. On the accession of Jones moral which Aristotle mentioned. desks. I myself regret that we were esoteric reasons for this.1. in 1603 his prospects improved.
were driven to take such drastic action and should like to express
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no passenger boat in port, so that passengers, at any rate, were put to no inconvenience. This morning the Wakaca Maru' arrived from Japan en route to Bombay, so we have opened our offices just in time.".
"Not much unlike young mon,
whom Aristotle thought, Infit to hear moral philosophy"
Troilus and Cressida Act 2.
plied the judge, you and I cannot be kindred except you be hanged: for Hog is not Bacon until it be wall hanged."
The external and internal evidence He was appointed Solicitor Genera! In Cymbeline Shakespeare uses are overwhelmingly against it. in 1607, and rapidly rosé until Britany for Britain: Bacon docamy apologies to the public through
So far na Shakespeare is concern-Avontually be became Lord Chan- the gate in Henry VII. ed, in Ben Jonson we have a collor. From this office he was Васска writes "Ah, but, reYesterday, fortunately, there was authority who might have set to removed in disgrace in 1621, and rost all our difficulties about the died in 1626. authorship of the First Folio. He has left us verse and prose on both Bacon and Shakespeare. He wrote little prose but in that curious unedley called 'Discoveries' bo has something to say on Shakespeare and also on Bacon.
Anybody who turns to book VI. of Bacon's work De augmentia scientiarum will find there one of Bacon's methods of "making merry with himself."
The book is a weird production ar ciphers and cipher codes. And whatever number It is difficult to reconcile his of anonymons works Bacon did or statemente about Shakespeare un- did not publish, he was evidently less we suppose that they do not quite interested in cipher codes, all refer to the same person. In his Anagrams and concealed methods of Book of Epigrams he writes the conveling atatements or truths. following which can refer to no oné save the Player of Stratford.
AN POET-APE. Pour Pool-ape, that would
thought our chief, Whose works are o'on the frippery
of wit,
be
From brokage is become so bold a,
thief,
As we, the robb'd, leave rage, and
pity it.
At first be made low shifts, would
pick and glean,
Buy the reventon of old plays, now
grown
To a little wealth, and credit in the
cene,
He takes up all, makes each man's
with his own,
He takes up all, makes each
with his on,
The
People, therefore, who think that there are other evidences that Bacon wrote the plays but wished to conceal the fact from the public uré quite justified in searching for clues in anagrams and ciphers throughout the plays.
Shakespeare writes :—
"Evane-Hung-Enng-Hog. D. Quickly: Hang Bog-is the Latin for Bacon (M. W. of Windsor Act IV. Ga. I.). Bacon writes:-"Of sufferance
cometh esse
Shakespeare writes:Well, of sufference ogmes ense." (2nd Honry IV. Se. V.). Bacon writes: "Make us of thy
salt bours." Shakespeare writes:-Make use of thy salt hours."' (Timon of 'Athens).
Of course this cipher interpreta. But these unique parallelisms might tion can be overdone. Everybody be indefinitely prolonged. The who has indulged in it can see how close resemblance between Bacon
theorice can be built up on it. Essay on Gardens and the flower
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All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be loft in the Godowns, At home recently a writer proved scenes in A Winter's Tale is such successfully that Sir. Bernard Shaw that J. M. Robertson (a violent to hear an appeal from the judg- Tuesdays or Fridays, between the The Full Court sat this morning where they will be examined on any must bave written the Shalter anti-Baconian) admite that it looksment given by the Chief Justice hours of 10.45 m. and Noon, within incarnations. pearian plays in ous of his previous if Shakespeare must have been (Sir William Rees Davies K. C.) the free storage period of one week.
As this is looking reading it; but as the easy did not last January in a charter party. Wo Fire Insurance has been affected backwards in time we have to begin appear in the earlier editions he to count from the last letters of the points out that this could not have action concerning the s.s."Sing- Bill of Lading will be countersigned
aporean." On the Bench with the by man's letters we take the fourth from the
names. As Shaw's name has four been posible.
Chief Justice were Sir Skinner i One of the most curione problems Turner, of the Shanghai Supreme And told of this, he alights it. Tat, of the principal plays the fourth dion in the play of Richard II. It the Puisne Judge.
end. In this way if we take a list in connection will the whole ques-Court, and Mr. Justice Gompertz, such crimes
letters from the end simply spell out was the first play which bore the singgish gaping auditor his name thin
The plaintiffs in the original name Wm. Shakespeare. By the action were the Cheong Yue MacBeth arrangement of Essex and his fellow Steamship. Coy, who succeeded Juling Cakes conspirators it was performed on in obtaining judgment for Midsummer Night DReato Saturday, February 7, 1601, the day $164,849.87 against the Bombay【FROM UNITED KINGDOM &
Merchant of Venice preceding the Essex rising. The firm of Dharsi Naryi and Coy. Corial Anua Queen complained that this tragedy The latter are now appealing.
of Richard II was played with against the Chief Justice's decisions Stormhip seditions intent. Bacon had to as being wrong in law. appear against Basex and South- ampton Essex was executed and Southampton was imprisoned till the Queen's death. It is certainly strange that though this play bare. the name W. Shakespeare, Bacon
devours;
He inarke not whose 'twas... firet,
and after times
May judge it to be his, as well as
oury,
Fool! as if ball-eyes will not know
a fleece
From locks of wool, or shreds from
the whole piece.
Critics like Sir Theodore Martin admit that this refers to the actor of Stratford.
How then are we to reonincile it with ?--
Two Gentlemen of VeRoun Merry Wives of WindDeer
Measure for MeaSure
Timon of At Hens Antony and Cleopatra
• All's Well that Ends Well
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Mr. Shaw, however, would like his over mentions it at the trial. readers to realise that his plays Stranger the author, the original "Shine farth, Thou Star of Poets, written in his present incarnation cause of the sedition, was not lined
and with rage,
are much superior to those of his or imprisoned or even summoned to "Or influence, chide og cheer the Elizabethan avatar. More recently the trial! It was the manuscript document
drooping stage
in the Scottish Educational Journal copy of this play in Bacon's hand-) admissible. "Which, since thy flight from for 14th September there appeared writing which was torn out of the
hence, bath
mourned like a very clever cipher proof that Northumberland papers. It 15 night,
Alfred Noyes was the author of the strange, too, that Bacon when "And despairs day, but for thy Shakespeare plays.
| objecting to appearing at the trial Miss Elizabeth Clement Ham Volume'e light."
But notwithstanding all this said, "it would be said he gave in phreys, acting Principal Matron Goods are to be left in the Godowes, [ridicule there romain some very evidenco his own taloa."! What of the British Army of the where they will be azamined on any Sir Theodore Martin thinks that carious anagrams and cipher coin did this mean? It has been inter- Rhine, died at Cologne. She Tuesdays or Fridays between the Jonson altered his opinion and came, cidences which add to the Bacon preted to imply that the Queen served in the South African hours of 10:45 am and Noos, within to respect Shakespeare in late life. probabilities. Everyone knows the suspected that he was the author campaign as Sister, and in the free storage period of one week. Unfortunately this is not a very lamons passage in Love's Labour of Henry IV. and Richard II. The Salonika from 1916 to 1919, being satisfactory conclusion for the Lost:-
whole history of the Eseer rebellion, twice mentioned in despatches. "Poet-Ape" did not appear till
of Bacon's almare in it, of Shakes She Was Matron of Queen by 1616, and Janson speaks of these Epigram as the ripest of bis
peare's Richard II. is shrouded in Alexandra Military Hospital. Lon- mystery and well worth careful don, from May, 1919, to November, studies."
study.
1921.
"What is a, b, spelt backward
with the born on his head?
Ben Jonson SOCIA Actively And also the anagram just preced
Classical scholars who are true mystifying. We cannot attribute it, ing it, honorificabilitudinitatibus. Stratfordians are very fond of using ag in the case of Irenaeus, to any But it is not so generally known the argument, that Bacon could not weakness of intellect. Ben Jonson that a large bundle of manuscript in have been guilty of the bad Latin well know the value of the plays Bacon's handwriting was found in found in the Plays. Andrew Lang and the saperlative intellect of their Northumberland House (The North- tells us, for instance, that nobody author. Had he anything to cou-umberland M.B.); and that this who had ever read Honce a ceal? We think he lud. He knew contains several of Bacon's works: "Ehen fugacee, Postame, Poe
that Win. Bhakspear, the actor of and sleo had in it according to the tume, could ever have fallen o Stratford, and W. Shakespeare title page Richard II. and Richard low to write Posters. There the author of the First Folio were II. Now, the most significant fact is however no proof that classical not one and the same person. He aboxit this M.8. is that the title scholars of three hundred years ago knew that Wm. Shakespeare was page is covered with the name Wm. were na meticulous about quantity á pecudonym. He had to praise the Shakespeare thus spelled, nuthor, and bis works and yet not Bacon's handwriting; also, with the descendanta. Edmund Burke who as their examination corupted disclose who the author was or how nominative case of this anagrant was a good classical liar la well the works came to be written. Is honorificabilitudipitatio; and with known to have said vectigal in the if not passing strange that Jonson Bason's own nie.. Three facts are House of Commons, when Lord should, in the Memorial verses, sy recognised by r. Spedding in con- North called out "For God's sake af Shakespeare that the great nection with these Northumberland vectigal, Mr. Burks." It is quito dramatist stood alone?---
Alone, for the comparison Of Papers (1) Ob the title page the clear from the plays that the cuthor all that insolent firecce or haughty eight or nine times over in associa proper names when it suited lim
name Wm. Shakespeare is written changed the quantity of clamical Rome send forth, or since did from tion with that Bacon, (2) The Thus he has Stephano (correct their ashes come."
And in his Discoveries he says of name of Shakespeare is spelt in Bacon, he "bath filled up all num every case no it was always printed quantity) and Stephano (incorrect). in those days, and not as he him-
In addition to the suggestion of bers and performed that in our self-the player in any known Bacon, as the real author of the tongue which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece case ever wrote it. (3) Fronted Plays several other names have been flanked, and followed by the name Mr. Looney wrote a book, "Shakes- mentioned. Not many years ago or Foughty Roma!!
Now at the very time when the of Shakespeare two of the Shakes First Folio was published Ban Parian playe are catalogued, will peace Identited," in which he Jouson seems to have been assisting compositions which are doknow made out o very clever case for de Bazon. He had been living with ledged to have been the work of Vere the Seventeenth Earl of
Offord him at Gorhambury, and retine us
Broogte hie finnslator. To him is due the “It is a' very significant fact, too) Latin translation of the DeAng. thịt the M.8, of Richard II. has mentis. Not only so, but Ben been tom out. But mors of this iamson, was present at the great unan...” (Persans interested in the bushniky front at Yuk Hours in uipher solution of the plays AJOU 1694nd in honour of that occas read Frank Woodenki 1? P
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