The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-06-04

TO play that play TO incite his followers
by the sight Of the murder Of King. The
narrative Mr. Donnelly has stumbled upon
in the 1st and ID Henry ". is the account
of these transactions Of 1897; the rage Of
the Queen the suspicion that fastened on
Bacon; the order for the arrest Of Shakes
peare. then sick at Stratford the rapid ride
of Henry Percy Bacons servant, to warn
him to iiy description of shakespeare
home and his family the long dialogue
between Percy and Shakespeare, in which
there are many things that will astonish
the world, as 10 the authorship of other
writings really by Bacon but now attrbu-
ted to other men. Incidentally Percy tells
Shakespeare that Cici assures the Queen
that he shakespeare was incapable Of
writing such plays and to prove it gives
the account of his wild life as a youth, his
fight with Sir Thomas Lucey's men, his
killing the deer his beating ono of the
gamekeepefs, his fight to London, his ex-
cessiye poverty, begging for bread at the
door Of the lighthouses, and holding
horses for penny, ragged, halfstarved
and shyering in the cold, until IIenslow,
the theatre manager, took pity on him and
had him bound out 10 him. and booked
as one of his servants.
The world is very slow to believe that a
secret which has escaped the keen eye of
the critical for two hundred and fifty years
should at last be discovered by an Ameri-
can; and still more by dwcller on the
banks of the Mississippi 1t would as
soon look for a great literary discovery in
the heart of Australia. But it is neyerthe-
less a fact, and any one who looks at Mr.
Donnelly manuscripts must 90 away sat
isfied that lie has found the key which un-
locks the whole inner history of the great
Ehzabethan age
l asked Mr.. Donnolly if it did not strike
him as extraordinary that any man should
undertake the vast labor which such a
double set Of writings, ciphcrs within and
plays without, implied He said yes.
asked him what could be the motive? He
replied glory Immortality What did all
the writer's work for. What did the sol
dier die for9 70 be remembered i'll the
hereafter The Shakespeare plays already,
simply regarded as plays, take rank beside
the works Of Homer. But when it will be
proved that an ali. powerful genius had
made these mighty works mere cover for
wonderful historical and biographical
narrative the wonder, the s,life-long as
constituent of mankind will never cease.
| asked Mr. Donnely when lie would
publish. lie said that he could stop in the
narrative at any point and publish his
book, and demonstrate the existence of the
cipher, but that he dislilSed to have it like
one of the New York Ledger stories, break
of in the midst of a fascinating narrative,
with continued in our next number, .
and that he was working now to round up
a complete story lie wanted to be able
to tell the world how the uproar was sup
pressed how Bacon saved himself; what
the Queen said To him: how it came that
the theatres of London were not disman-
tied, and why it WAS that as long as Eliza
beth lived Bacon was kept in private life
and poverty lie said that as the people
had waited two hundred and fifty years
for this revelation he thought they could
possess their souls in patience and wait Il
month or Two longer He hoped to be
ready for the printers some time i'll June;
every word result; from an arithmetcal
calculation, and has to be arrived at by
patient counting, the process is necessarily
slow Mr. Donnelly is working from ten
to twelve hours every day, and he hopes
the world will be patient with him.
asked him in what light the narrative
represented William Shakespeare. He
said, on the whole, not in a bad light. He
was very aifectionatc toward his wife and
children, and his sisters when he first came
to London, because of the poverty in
which he had left them; and his inability
to keep them, for lie was very wretched, is
painted in a mastery manner. He was a
good, common place man; industrious and
reliable; ambitions to be something; very
economical, with some weaknesses and
considerable vanity His daughter, Su-
sauna, afterward Mrs. DIR. Hall, is dc
scribcd as a very handsome and intelligent
young woman, confirming the subsequent
inscription on her tomb
"witty beyond her sex, hnt that's not all,
Wise to salvation was good Mistress Hall
Mr. Donnelly said the publication of his
book "would leave Francis Bacon the one
conspicuous figure of mankind.