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MAY INSTITUTE. The lecture at the Helens May Instituto last evening by Mr. A. H. Crook, was altended by a good
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previously reported, then. Ma, F. 11. Holyoak G.X. Young, Ing. Listening to the opening sentence Hongkong Section this year will; of the lecture our was convinced be a Government enterprise, but that Mr. Crook was a hard bitten Government control is not likely an Obarghita, K. $141. Bot./ Baconins, but the conclusion left to detract from Its popularity, as his audience in something of a quan-jall the features will be preserved, dary na to Iris real standpoint is the The personnel this year, comprised sized pits Ferived for cke zase of ing 110 men and women. Is not Commencing with his early days, as large un last year's,
the fret of Professor, mittent Chinese business man bas 'been requested to get the star Doughton who was probably the
for the Government. greatest living authority on Shakes.
matter.
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ten Hamlet. but it provesi sothingjoneers, as the plans do not neden. {any day in a month no interest}
Other literary *PROTA mutably
railed Henry James had
Shuke speare a divine fraud. As a nontter offnet, nil that was known of the man could he written on a post
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Fob, 10d 12h. 33m.-Prossure eard. At his death and for seven has decreased very considerably years after 13 plays signed William over Japan, and incroasod slight- Shakespeare and three initiallely to moderately elsewhere. W. 8. came to fight and seven of
An anticyclone of considerable the total were not accepted by any intensity has developed over N. body as coming from his pen. | China, and a depression is altuzi-, Shakespeare's Wide Kouwledge. Jod over N Japan. Frosh to strong! The first folio of Shakespeare as monsoon will prevail along the produced was shrouded in mystery ||
egast and over the China Sea.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24
and Ben Jonson's dedicatory verses hours onding at 10 a.m. to-day word regarded as a leg-pull. Many 10.0 inch. Total since January pages were wrongly numbered and Ist, 4.33 inchen. against ar some huid no numbers at all. Of average of 2 04 inchon, the Tompest, most enigmatical of
tho plays it was thought thai, a
largo alice had been lost.
Referring to the wonderful know-) ledge shown in the plays, the lee
turer said that the author's granit of legal matters and appreciation of law terms was extraordinary and
FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.
District.
Forecast. N. winds,
Formona Channel
South
coast of China batwoon!
strong.
H.K. & Lamooks N,E. winds,
therefore many biographers had 3 H'kong to Gap frosh; mado of him ri
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lawyer's clerke, |
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quoting that part of lús plays which 4 South coast of
dealt with things medical land said
that he must be a
others claimed him
doctor, while
ጊዜ a school-
master who taught at Ovid, although
that book was not translated at the
China batweon H.K. & Hainan
T. F. CLAXTON, Directo Hongkong. February 10.
time, were in confliction with the Na Shakespearian would listen party who assigned to him the role to a word about the Northumber of courtier and country gentleman. land Manuscript, which in many.
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deulentory verses in the first foliol say that Shakespeare were said to be his appreciation | for no to was George Bernard Shaw in one of the real author whose identity of his earlier incarnations, con he suspected knew. He had tinued Mr. Crook and to prove it lived with Bacon for many years showed that the fourth letter from as a translator and was doing so the end of each play title working when the first follo was published) from the back of the book spelt in which the verses appear. Bernard Shaw, and this was very much more conclusively an estab ilsment of the re-incarnation
theory than the whole collection
Gladstone Wrote Browning,
Mr. Crook then related his ex- perience with a friend who said that he could advance as good a theory as the Baconians to the The plays had also been aserib effect that the late Mr. Gladstone ed to Edward de Verc. Earl of had written Browning's poems and
of recent letters to the Press.
Oxford, and to Francis Bucon, Lord Verney, but the order of the plays together with the incidents of his life where such varied
outlined his
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arguments in quite convincing malace. Their erudition, their obscurity, their knowledge could be acquired, her similarity of
love for Haly. their optimism, phrasing, and An anugrammatic twist of wording supported the contention. Brown.
latter was the rent out that the author. There were many atonces of similarity of expression in the works of Shakespeare and ing had little schooling and no
yet
University education and Bacon, and this was particularly shown in a case where both quoted spoke with knowledge pertaining
worda,
to such influences. He also spoke Aristotle wrongly, and in the same of "making Rothschild quake.",
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And who could do this but a Chan- cellor of the Exchequer? asked the Then there was the famous lecturer. All these things wore anagram which solved out "These as good for Gladstone
በዛ for plays of Francis Bacon aro pre- Bacon. Berved for the world,” Along In conclusion, Mr. Crooks said these lines Mr. J. C. Squire had that having proved conclusively Bald "Never bellove a Baconian" that Bernard Shaw had written and in support of this quoted an Shakespeare, although the author) instance where he had written a was probably Francis Bacon and poem himself and ascribing it to that Gladstone had written Brown- Green, had said in print that he ing's poems, he
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