1914-04-23 — Page 8

BACON OR

SHAKESPEARE?

Controversy Recalled by Sir B. * Durning-Lawrence's Death.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, (914.

was Bacon's orest. That obviously |satiles Shakespeare.

Butt for Humorists, Of coures, it all sounds ridiculous, and grotesquely

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Manila Request. humorists bave little difficulty in

Efforts made by the publicity making great game of Sir Edwin!

committee of the Manila Mer- A telegram received yesterday and his pige and sows and gam chants Association to tap the announced the death of Sir Edwin mons of Bacon. One of them Durning-Lawience, Bart, who for succeeded, the other day, in trade of tourists that makes ite many years has been the butt of proving from the programme of way down the Chins, coast frem entirials the world over because Peter Pan" that not J. M. Bart in Shauguai to Hongkong and thence of the queer beliefs he held but Durning Lawrence himself, to Singapore without visiting the about the authorship of the works was the author of that and all the Philippines, saya the Manila attributed to Shakespeare and ao her Barrie plays, not to montin Bulletin, has brought out an ex Beef Sirloin & Prime NOut, Mei Lung Pa lot of other things. His death those of Ibsen, Hauptmann, lends interest to the following Pinero, Gorky, D'Annunzio aux article contributed last year to a George Bernard Shaw. loading American paper by ite This really ingenious and fanı y London correspondent:--- parody hit off perbapa the Sir Edward "During-Lawrence, weirdest of all the baronet's Bart., among other things, is the notions, i. e., bis conviction, the fiercest Biconita" going Bia Bacon foresaw that he, Sir Eda i favourite designation of Shakes would publish the key to the "the drunken illiterate great mystery in the year 1910, peare is clown of Stratford-on-Avon," and At this conclusion the baron for nearly twenty-five years, or arrives by the simple process over since Ignatias Donnelly's counting the loltors in the rhymed famous book started him off on Address to the Header" which the subject, he has been spending faces the title-page of the First most of his time and money in Folio of the playe, and, being endeavouring to prove that Bacon signed B. I. is usually secribed was the author, not only of the to Ben Jonson. Sir Edwin fiod- plays and sonnetsttributed to that this verse contains 287 le

"When we arranged to bave Shakespeare, but of everything ters, a masonio namber, he says, elee of importance that RB often repeated through the Folio. all our outward steamers call at Manila it was necessary not only produced in the Elizabethan age, "My book, 'B:con Is Shakespeto eliminate the Shang'at call including the English translation are," be says, "was publishel of the Bible, Spencer's "Faerio in 1910, i. e., 287 years after but also to somewhat aborten Queene, Sir Philip Sidnoy's 1623." So, of course, it is as plain the lay at terminale in order to "Arosdia"

"Dun as "ALO" that Bacon foresaw provide the necessary time for the Manila diversion, and under Quixote," which Sie Edwin saye Dorning-Lawrencs.

Let us take Sir Edwin seriously the present sobedule the terminal Cervantes merely translated Spanish.

for a minute, and see how belaye, as well as a ports of call, supports his queer conclusions, have been reduced to an absolute An Expensive Hobby.

Ilia "piga" and "cows" and The baronet has apetit a raillion hang-hoge" are the least of the which dollars in trying to solve the curious" evidence" Bacon-Shakespeare mystery. The they appear. Sir Edwin believe books that he bought to aid him that Bacon wrote these works, in his researches including bis because, as he asserts, there wa Shakespeare First Folio, which no one else capable of writing mean that instead of each vege! making five round trips par year. he got from the late Lord Ash them, Sir Philip Sidney. Barlowe,

or say a total of 35 round trips burnham for $15,000-represent Ben Jonson and the rest being for the seven ships, it would be an expenditure of $250,000, and according to him, no more capable have been collected from the four of writing the works attributed necessary to open up the schedale corners of Europe. He says that them thay was the drunken, to provide for the additional time once, when he wanted a certain illiterate clown of Stratford-00: required by the Shanghai diver Tare volume which finally turn-Avon" of writing the immortal sion and this would necessitate ed up in Italy he sent cat over plays that bear his name on their réduction in the number of round voyages to about 30 per 3,000 advertisements for it, which title pages. The "Bard," as one

I take it that it is the is a fair specimen of his regard might expect, is Sir Edwin's Late desire of the people, of Manila, lessness of expones in the pur-noir. According to the barone, suit of his hobby. A copy of his Shakespeare could not read nor that the steamers of this company book, "Bacon Is Shakespeare," even write his own name, and Sir should call at Manila se frequently which appeared in 1910, and Edwin, who was a lawyer before 8 operating conditions will per- the publication of which in that he went into Parliament, askeris mit, and that it would be more year Sir Edwin believes was that all six of Shakespeare's to the interest of your ports to foreseen by Baron, has been supposed signatares were written have what is practically a 10 day service without the Shanghai call placed in every library of import by law clerks, so that not a scrap rather than to have this extended ance in the world, including those of his writings exists today. io Japan, and the baronet has Sir Edwin declares that Bacon to about 12 day intervals."

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Chicken, Capone, Large, Small,-Sin Kai Ducks,-Ap Eggs. Hen-Kai Tan Fowls, Canton,-Kai geese, Ngoi

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Hainan,-Hoi Nam Kai distributed over 500,000 copies concealed his authorship of the of bia latest pamphlet, "The English version of the Bible, considered in oonnect on with the

in this "The Faerie Queene," and all the Shanghai call and that is the leese, Wild S'hai, Shang-ho Yea Ngoi Shakespeare Myth," country and now threatens to other works of the golden age of heavy tonnage dnes and the long Mask Deer-Wong Keng distribute a similar number in literature, because it was then lighterage between Woosung and Hare, Shanghai, In Chai the United States. All this must "degrading" to be known as Shanghai proper make this our Partridge, Che Khoo have cost him thousande of dollars writer, and that he concealed his most expensive port of call in the Pheasant Shan Kai *more, but when I asked him point identity as the writer of Shake Oriant, and while the amount of Pigeons, Canton, Pak Kup

Hoihow,Eloi How Pak Kup, blank how much he had sport in spears because Queen Elizabetli traffic to and from that port is the hope of convincing the world was so mad about "Richard 11 considerable the heavy expenses. Quail, Um-Chun. that Lord Bacon was ilo greatest of which sho eaid, according to very materially reduce the net Rice Birds, We Fa Cheul ...

Snipe,-Sa-Choy literary syndicate on record, he Sir Edwin, "Seest thou not that

"Considering all there con replied that he didn't know and I am Richard the Second"? didn't care.

I expected the baronet to hed.dilions I regret one inability, at Turkeye, Cock-Phor Kai Kang

this time at least, to have our Wild Ducka, S'hai-Shang hoi Sui Ap

teamera call at Shanghai nutward for I believe that should this be done it would ascessitate A`TE- duction in the frequency of the Manila calls which would even-

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The fashion in which he end-ge when asked how he got the eavours to prove that Bucou wrote famous "53" which be declares Shakespeare is amazing In Bacon used, as & clue, but his his pamphlet, "The Shake answer oume pat. speare Myth," Sir Edwin declarea] "Bacon wes a Master Mason," that, "for reasons which it is he said, "and the secret of his unnecessary to disonss," Bacon authorship was confided original solcoted No. 63 as the "key to his ly to nine members of the order, mystery and then turning to the afterward increased to 33, who

Bacon' First Folio (which it appears, have banded it down. contains three pages numbered originally used the number 33,

Canton Fresh Water Fish,-Hoi Sin 53, the baronet proceeds to show which signified his Masonic de- The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Oarp,-Li Ya... that on be fret page thus agree, as his "key number," and Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals Catfish, Chik Ya... bered we find the phrase" hang- I can show you dozens of olaen begs to acknowledge with thanks Codfish-Man Yan hog," and the observation "hang on pages 33 of his verse but this the following corations to the hog" ja latten for Bacon I warrant Boon struck him as too apparent, fande of the Hospitals you," and on the second page 53 and for this reason be altered it Hongkong ElectricLight Co. $250 the statement. "I have a gammon to 53. He also used the Masonic Graves Conon & Co. of Bacon." On the third page153 double A, the light A and the Richard C. - Faithful", there is nothing of the kind; but dark A, as well as the Masonic

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that does not feaze Sir Edwin. two pillars and the shibboleth as works of the Elizstathan age, He remarks quietly that we must hidden evidence of his authorship, first pointing out that in each of look for the invisible page 53," not to mention a queer ase of tue them the Masonic "light and Bels, Yellow,Wong. Sin whiob, he explains, is page 53 left hand, and several other clues dark A" appeared on the title Frogs, Tien Kai ...... counting from the end, and here which I could point out to you if page, and to open them at page Garoupa, Bek Pan....... ie a prize indeed! For on this there wrca time, but now let us 63.. He showed me "The Faeris Gudgeon-Pak Kup Tu "page 53 we find three lines begin- take a look at the booka!" Queene and Florio's Second Herrings, Teo Pák...... ning rospectively with the words

Appeals to First Follo. Prates," published in 1591, and Balibut,Cheung Kwan Kup "Pompey. ""in" and "got," the

He began with the First Folio, no end of other works, of which Labras-Wong Fa Yu initials of which form the word and showed, among other queer most of us bave never even hear), Losch,Wa Yn "Fig," which, Sir Edwin says, in things, that where, the letters and one very page 53, if there was Lobsters, Tang Ha what we are dooking for. A few "P.IG" appeared, on page 63, not a "Bacon" or "pig" or some Mackerel, Chi ... pages further on we find three the printing was done arbitrarily, speech which could be interpreted Monk Fish, Mong Yu more lines whiob, reading upward the lines being divided in an with out too much straining, to Jullet-Chai Yu this time, form the word ઠર','

unusual, way so as to bring the suggest & hidden authorship, Oysters, Sang Hoo which, the baronet observes, a words "Pomper," "in" and "got" there was a picture in which a Barrotfish-Kai Kring just as much. Bacon as "hang directly ander each other, and boar or some other beast of the orch,Tan Log hug" and which, he declares, went on to direct alfontion to so porcine tribe figured, and in Pike, Fa. Paw Poong. makes the thing even m te certain many other at lesat exceedingly which oftener than not, the Plaise-Pan Yu then it was before. There is more, curions coincidences that no one "light and dark A was used to Pomfret, Black, Hak Chong r-on one of the 3 pages 3 could be expected to remember form a tent or a pyramid, and in Pomfret, White, Pak Chong (I forget whether it is a visible half of them

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