The New York herald., 1874-09-06

| merchant" purchase" .'inaenture.n "tenure y
'double voucher" "fee simple" "lee farm, - .Te
mander," "reverston," forfeiture and the like.
| Finally. SO accurate and precise Is the use OF
legal pariance by this man. VINO is not anthem
tlcaly known to have devoted one isolated mo,
ment OF his lie to the study OF law, that Lord
| Campbell expresses his astOnishmeat and marvels
that, "whie novehsts and dramatists are oon
stanty making mistakes as 70 the law OF mar
rlage, OF Wills and OF inheritance. to Snakes
peare's law lavishly as he propOunds It, there can
neither De demurrer nor bill Oh exceptions, nor
81 IN %Hsnsonus the
n % %en the ornsr assa0l is
has already been called to the utter
er's Table in Gray's Inn. At the Christmas reyels
OF that year he assists the gentlemen oi the Inn in
Arthur - and certain mssques for which he writes
yeI but mere 'serviture" at the BlacIirlars
Theatre, and still unsuspected OF being the author
Of anything. Thus runs me story OF Francis
BaSSoa' 10 1884, member Of Parliament,
theatre-golng young lords, Essex, South
ampton, Rutland, Montgomery and the rest;
10 l5ss stun pursuing his studies in his retreats
now presenting the queen with sonnet COM
posed by himself, "though protesting" as he says
IN parentnesis, mot to be poet;" and then. bv
help from the Lombards and Jews In 1892, writ
ing to Lord Burghey, Bacon savs:-
Again the msanness Of my estate doth some what move
case or to Se yet W nsaS not 10 speYd @
carry me on will not do as Anaxagoras did, who
sSed ba S with @ unto
hsye ana an some lease OF 9ncs or
BOOK maker.
In that very year Robert Greene (.Groat's Worth
OF Wlt'D discovers that a new poet has arisen,
who Is becoming 'the only Shakescene In Y coun.
trey" Meanwhile, Bacon Is embarrassed with
working for bread"
In 1854 some eight or ten OF the earlier plays
taken to be the WORK Of Shakespeare, Though
none OF them had as yet been printed under his
1aa Drol It sumeS Iss fact
name had not appeared on the title page
Of any printed play, and that II was
Of the plays as .writtenn newly augmen ed and
corrected" " or "newy set forth and overseen,"
to the year 1898 nothing definite anywhere ap-
pears, except the dedicatl0ns to southampton and
the illusions which followed, on winch TO base the
beyond tue pare iact that the plays were upon the
stage IN the theatres which he was connected
does he appear to have declined the honor OF
their paternity. The TACT Is by no means
to be ignored that several OF the plays attributed
to the poet during his lie are now indlsputably
proved not to be The product ol his pen.
Hereupon our author hints at the pth OF his
theory and offers the view that, on the supposi-
t1on that these plays came from Gray's Inn, and
were the early attempts OF a briefess young bar
rister who did not desire to be known as q writer
1or the stage, and who meant TO 'prOfess to be
poet" but to whom any "lease OF quick revenue"
might not be unacceptable and cover some prac-
tlcal necessity 1t Is not difficult to imagine that
this absolute Johannes FactOtum" wOuid be Just
the man to suit MS purpose; Is 1t necessary to
suppose that an eXpi ess bargain would DE struck
in terms between them in the first instance but
rather tnat the arrangemens came about gradu-
ally in the course OF time.
The circumstance Is mentioned under which
the "Troilus and Cressida, made its first appear.
ance, 1903, as worthy OF special note IN this con-
never-writer TO an everreader. Newes.S "A
neverwrlter, " notes our author, must have meant
Sns 70 8s q
who was writing 80 much Tor the ever-reading
public" This play contains Zone OF those
numerous instances OF similarity, not to say iden
tlty OF thought between the works OF Shakespeare
and BacOn) which, though not absolutely con.
less convlncive than the most direct evidence
when considered with all the rest" In
the advancement" treating OF moral culture.
Bacon quotes Aristotle as saying that "young
men are no lit auditors OF moral philosophy"
because "tney are not settled from the polling
heat OF their affections nor attempered with time
and experience" In the "Trollus and Cressida,
we have the same thing in these words:-
Not 80 much
Hntke ai young men, whom whom aristotle thought
The reasons you allege do more conduce
70 the hot passion Of dislempered blood
'Twxt right and wrong.
Mr. Speeding remarks that Aristotle speaks
only OF political an philosophy" ana that the error
but our author urges that the whole tenor OF the
argument IN the play Is so exactly III Keeping
with Bacon's manner OF dealing with the subject
that it IL hard to believe mere plag1arlst would
have followed HIM 80 profoundly. At a later stage
OF the WORK are given many hundred paralleltslns
OF word aud thought between the works of these
great contemporaries, who never, by brieest hint
gave Indication that either was cognlzant Of the
existence OF the other, whlCn stngularity urged
the writer IN the At'aenHura, quoted above, to re.
mark -
Bacon was rather fond Of speaking of his great con-
hair
sayings. In his "ADophtnegms" hnd nearly all that
Of and n TO
isnors the man living, Had he reason his
see the greatness OF Lear and .Macbeth There must
have been some reason tor this silence.
One singular instance OF paralelism occurs in
BacOn's Essay on Gardens" and the "Wlnter's
Tale" Bacon maintained that 'there ought tO be
gardens for all the mon tbs OF the year, in which
severalIy Things of beauty may be IN their sea.
:" and he proceeds to name the a now wers proper
TO each month and season. "Now,n remarks our
author, "lhe flowers named in the cottage scene
OF the fourth act of the Winters Tale' appear
to have been drawn from one and the same calen
dar and In ABOUT the order as those Of the essayV
As rnus. In Inc essay
For December and January and the part No
you pssm msf xe sush things % are gree. all win
ram '''' 'A''' "A'''-
Perdita lin the play):-
For you there's rosemary and rue these keep
Seeming and SAVIOR all tue winter long.
The essay
Primroses; for March there come violets cally
he single blue-the yellow daiod in April follow the
iouble white volet-,he cowsip; hower er-oe-iuces and
lilies OF all natures-the pale datodl.
Perdita:-
That come before the swallow dares, and take
Ihs winds ss Of osy March with beauty & T9ies dim
The crown imperial lilies of ali kinds,
The howerdeuce being onel
The essay
In May anc June come pnks of all Sorts the French
,f ali varieties
Perdita:-
Sir, the year growing ancient
Not yet on summer s death nor the birth
Of trembling wiDterthe fairest flowers o. th season
Are carnations and streaked gillitowers:
Hot lavender, mint, savory, marjoram;
The margold, that goes to bed with tn sun:
. these flowers
Of middle summer.
Mr.. SPEEDING notices these resemblances and
observes tnat II this essay had been contained In
the earlier edition OF Bacon's works some express
sions would have made him suspect that Shake.
speare had been reading It. But this particular
essay was not printed until 1926 nine years after
the death OF Shakespeare. which precudes the
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