The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-12-26

Be,a,o-D 1sy laias-, ID, u. rzsras, r-
H'"'''-' ~ aDa es .5' a : ,i,-ssi n.ar
Tala - lraat asla ye-r .-l=.as
r. f. not strange that s,,ae ardent ad1nircr u
tie great Englizh dumati-5, sh0gld have felt
himself called upon o Tepel tire u.iuuatiOn that
pos-ibly Bac,u, Or syane one el-e, may have been
the author q th0se immortal Plays. All sc aid
merely amounted % the question, " Did Shake
peaFe write Shakapers?' We n,w Tepel; tie
question and we cali upon the Ga=eHe, " any
other critic, upon any fair rules of criticism, u
prove William Shake-feare TIE auth9r or " Otbel-
b., d. Hamlet" Of. TcuIest, - q. Julius Gear,
- = you like IT," &c. Prove SLake-Ieiro the
author 81 you would prove Dante tLe author Of
8. Inferno" Milton Of 81 Paradise Let" Bgrus
or A." The COtter's saturday night Tie truth
IN the matter +, that SiakesIeare's life. Labitz,
and suTrOuEding. d. not tally with what We
must naturally -lFF4-e 90 nave been tie mental
furniture and cZczeI-e- Or TIC author oF tl.-e
Play Displaying ~ much deep and elbIe FiI,--
Ophy, wealth IL leaning, and knDwlcIge u Lis-
tJry. While Dante au- alive, liz c5tcmForaIies
were Accustomed u cay, " There g1o q man who
has ssan bell ,''-heuos there j. no iucJngruity in
such n man writing tire Inferno MIt,n'-
leaning Gtted BIN o. combine alltLc phil0syphy
and Earning Of tic aueicnt- and tie ~Hl1iern- in
bis great poem. EIrn-' known life and habits
are suited % bis IDlm-. There f. u GtEe-s IL
those thing bot o., All 4reH, fines in Shake
Pcare's life and known literary LaLits and the
Pays we have a]Icciiei hence We a--.st that i,
j. n fair subject Of literary criticism L. a-k tic
question, " Did Shake-pcarc write Shakaperegf'
Tie liIIant r]cjJinder j. Unfair, that because ga
Boston giTl-Ali-- Della Eac1u-aud q Mi--ouri
judse-NathanIcl H1.me.'' have argued them
selves into the belief that Bacon and Raleigh
wrote tho=c Play, L.ne. DIZZY were ~lunatie-, and
al who may rymIatiizs with them are 70 DC
classified m the same category.
Hamlet tell- HOatiO, that there arc more thiny-
in heaven and earth than are drcamt Of In his
philosophy, 70 there are more things in correct
literary criticism than tic writer IN tie h-t Gq-
-ete ever dreamt Of, If hc czlcct- u silence such
critics n COlerifge, Emerson, HJlInc-, and others
who might be mentioned. The writer in the
Ga=snc a--erts that the &c high--Jundiug stylc If
Bacon" unified him for the task. This inIicat.-
his ignorance of BIc0n'- style. Bacon was a
master Of even q poetic style. lie wrote Piays.
which were performed before Queen Elizabeth.
lie published several poems, and was a Ier=Jn
acknowledge of rare hferary and POctical rs
well e. philosophical abilities. A. for leisure, bc
was an author who enjoyed rare privileges in this
respect. lie was known b. BE- enineuuy fond Or
dramatic COMPOSITION. while hs classical attain
mcnts were Of the very highest Order. There are
aud passage in some Of the Plays at
tributed to shakc-Iearc. Indicating tlat the au-
thor, whoever d. may have been. was well ae-
quaiuted with the Oh Greek dramas, some Of
were not even trlneItel in the days Of
Shakespeare. Wesay o, thc writer in the Ga-ers,
while We are hr from a--ertius that Shakespeare
i not the author VI the Plays ordinarily atrribu-
bel to him, set We 81 ASSERT that IN accepting of
~ their author. olmTei- the literary world
lnI critic d. max. a'il.sau-- fr him, such a-