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Sir Wm. Bragg On One Of The Things To Come

SIR WILLIAM BRAGG, seventy-three-year-old director of the Royal Institution, sat at his desk in the lounge' of his flat above that building, and began to talk.

"Yes," he said, "it is true that|

I have seen fifty years of science,

but,

you know he hunched SHAKESPEARE

his shoulders-"We scientists]

are like doctors: we don't like DISCOVERY:

self-advertisement."

He remained silent for OLD VOLUMES

3

moment, gazing across the lounge, that was full of, easy chairs to

the blue curtains drawn over the

windows,

now full

MARGINAL NÔTES IN

AN OLD HISTORY This was the

The chance discovery of a set | of knowledge, white-moustached. of three volumes, comprising the Father bald, with twirling eye second edition of Holinahed's brows, whose work with the X-ray "Chonicles," is causing consider- has won him world repule,

"I'll tell you what I will do," he ablo interest and speculation in resumed. *H not talk to you British, Continental, and Ameri- about myself,

but about science can literary circles. generally.

One of the volumes is believed by experts to bear notes and jot- tings in the handwriting of Shakespeare, and to be the actual copy he used as the source of! many of his historical plays,

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"You ask what I think is the finest scientific invention of the last fifty years, I should say the valve, and I should call it a tech- nical device. The valve created| Handwriting experts in Leuten. wincless, led to all sorts of thingsParis and Geneva are unanimous

yes, definitely the valve.

Jon the matter, They declare that "The airplane was

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marginal notes, sondry

variona Bemani epigram jotted down in Parts of the book are in the Bame T.P. Suamidun

T.T. Singaporė hand as he signatures to Shake "What selence will bring in the Blackfriars property, the Mantas E. P. San Pier New York

peare's will. the deeds of

ET. Japans his, TT, India next fifty years I will not hazard.las ense the Ori's "Metamor-T.T. Java Om of the fascinations of this phoses" at the Bodleian Library T.T. France game is that you never know what and the Florio's "Montaigne" at: 5, C. Manda is around the corner,

the British Museum.

T.T. Banitoks "One thing I am sure about,

J.T.T. Saigon however, is that if there is a more The Holinsheet is the property of T.T. Lisbon highly-mechanised age to come it Capt. William Jaggard, the Stratford- will not affret employment.

on-Avon bibliographer and scholar. almost daily. People are getting len, the well-known scholar and

"Discoveries

He acquired the set are being made executors of the late A. H, Bul- years ago from

founder of the Shakespeare Head; Press.

engine.

worried. They shouldn't.

"What they don't realise is that such things as needles and scissors and typewriters are all machines.

"What would happen if we woke up one day and found ourselves without them? Millions of people would be out of work."

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DAWLPLUGS

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Selling

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4's, San Franisco New York 3314 4 m/s. D/P. When Capt. Jaggard examined the 4 m s. France ..... set nbout a year ago he discovered New York-London on several of the pages a number of manuscript scraps and nemorandio "in a hand strangely familiar."

H: came to the conclusion that these were undoubtedly In Shakespeare's" hand, and that the book had been the poet's properly.

once

The book was shown to the Can- tesse C. Longworth de Chambrug. the French Shakespearean scholar, to experts at the British Museum,, the Bibliotheque Nationale. and Count F. Franzoni, the famous! Geneva legal graphologist. All agreet that Capt. Jaggard's opinion

correct.

The work of dredging. extend- The marginal notes are of great ing eastwards, and

bullding, interest. The Anal page (bearing wharves is to be completed within the printer's name and place of two years.

printing) had two slips of Tudori notepaper pasted at the top and hol- tom. Having soaked these off, Capt. Jaggard found the written initials

Rye was one of the Cinque Ports. The harbour was built in the reign of Edward III. During the reign of Elizabeth It became silhed up. It has since been used for "Feur Virtues of the Holy Ghost, Lonly-by-light-vèssels,

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Masbates

Demonstrations

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On another margin was the motto.

-the same Hand-Prudencs, Justyce. Forty-tude and Temperance' Epigram And Prescription Beneath this motto was the churne teristic Shakespearean epigram:

"As wealth maketh lofty

Soe want maketh lowly." On various pages of the book are about 100 written words, including the following veterinary recipe.

"Blacke soane, pigge meale and Sonny, mingled together, good for a Lorses legge swollen."

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