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December 22, 1938.
Shakespeare Starts A Problem SCRAWLED EPITAPH MAY BE
DIS
A PRICELESS
TREASURE
ISCOVERY of a manuscript, believed by ex- parts to have been written by Shakespeare, was revealed. recently.
It consists of fragments of scrawling handwriting found buried away between the musty leaves of a copy of Michael Drayton's "Barrons Wars," published in 1603. THE BARD'S EPITAPH?
On the flyleaf is an epitaph belleved to be in the hand of the Bard of Avon.
A number of distinguished students of ancient manuscripts have examined the writing and state that there is the closest resemblance to the known handwriting of Shakespeare. There are only five copies of his signature in existence,
The romantle story of how Dray-j ton's book left this country in the carly 17th century, remained hidden in Italy for three centuries, wwn lold by its owner, Mr. Alan Keen, of Edgware, Middlesex.
"I bought it three years ago from: a North London dealer for £6," he sald. "It did not occur to me at first; that the writing on one of the pages might be anything out of the ordinary.
EXPERTS AGREE
"Then I began to study it care-i fully. Something in it recalled what| I had already seen from the signa- tures of Shakespeare.
"Eventually I submitted the MSS. to certain experts for Ink tests, and finally felt that
that I could put the whole matter before world experis in hand- writing. I was delighted
when found that two of them agreed.
"The writing in my book is in the| form of an epitaph to Michael Dray- ton. According to the authorities, however, the writing is not by Dray- ton himself. It is not like his work. nor is it his style."
GREAT LITERARY FIND,
"All the papery connected with this matter were shown, to me a little time ago by Mr. Keen," Sir John Squire sald. "I spent three days studying the details of the manu script, and now believe that Mir. Keen has made out a very strong
case
"If the experts of the world agree an there is no doubt that it is the most valuable literary And of all Lime."
A member of the firm of
Washington observers believe that Postmaster General James A. Farley will quit the Cabinet, as soon as he can find a good business connection.
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A hundred radio telephony experts met in London recently HANDS:
to discuss plans for international circuits for relaying television
between Britain, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Holland and Rumania. While your left hand Sir George Lee, engineer-in-chief focusses, your right fore- to the G.P.O., met these 100 delegates at Burlington-gardens, Piccadilly.
Representatives of Chili, Mexico, the U.S.A., Cuba, Uruguay, Argentina and Japan were there too.
Industry Still Comes
South
Mours. Industry's continued drift to the Quaritch, famous London booksellera South and large scale transfers of and dealers in rare MSS., said: "I workers to industries connected with certainly is a discovery which de- serves to be given the closest atten- the defence programme are revealed
tion
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FOUR captains were among the 14 guests, all one-time mem- bers of the crew of the Cutty Sark, who recently lunched in the small saloon of the famous old China clipper, now moored in the Thames off Greenhithe.
Sixteen people attended the lunch, the 14 guests and the Captain-Super- intendent and the First Officer of the training ship Worcester.
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First Omeer Jackson of the Wor- cester said: "The saloon of the Cutty is small. It seats 12 comfort- ably.
The lunch was a very good one and not al ull like the hard tack of the old sailing ships. It is to be cooked aboard the Worcester.”
in the annual census of the insured population issued by the Ministry of Labour.
This shows that there are now
15,742,850 insured people in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, includ- |ing, for the first time, agricultural workers and 221,270 persong in domestic employments.
Some signifeant increases in the number of insured people are: Air-
The method of relaying and inter- changing programines will be carried out by cable and radia linkups.
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Cables running between Paris and and Berlin and Munich
will in all probability be the first to be used for this purpose.
Difficulties that would be experi- enced by the use of submarine cables Jur this type
transmission- particularly neross the Channel and the North Sea-will be overcome by
system of radio relay links. Countries will be able to tranmit and exchange programmes for the nominal cost of hire of the cable and radio links.
This means that the B.B.C. will be
craft, 30,000 general engineble able to give its viewers the best of |23,000; explosives, 7,000; public works, 34,000, and National Govern-foreign programme matter at a frac-
ment Service, 14,000.
tion of what it would rost to bring the artists to this country.
During the conference idens will
There are declines in cotton of nent workers), 17,000; coal mining. purpose of bringing about a spccdler 18,000; rallway service (non-pennub pooled by the experts for the
development of television inter- nationally.
10,000; woollens, 10,000.
SOUTH'S $1 PER CENT, Changes in geographical distribu-
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tion of insured persons again show South has now 51.1 per cent. of the that London and the South are at-whole insured population |tracting large numbers. Londonpared with 48 per cent. in 1920 and
heads the list with #11 increase of 43.7 per cent. in 1823. 32,550, though this is only one-third The number of persons employed of the increase reported for the year in agriculture in Great Britain and before.
Northern Ireland is 750,350, an in- crease of 6,730 over last year or 0 per cent.
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