St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-04
DONNELLY'S DELUSION.
Reasons Why the Sage of Nininger is on
the Wrong. Scent in His Ba-
CONAN Theory.
Contemporaries of Shakespeare Who, With
Means of Knowing, Testified
to His Commences.
Manner in Which the Donnelly C1-
pher Theory Can be Developed
by Any Person.
The Belief of Centuries Rudely Sha-
ken--ssUnder Which King, Be-
roman, speak, or Die.

While reading Mr. Donnelys lately pub
hshed letter respecting his Baconian theory
of Shakespeare, ] asked myself, must then
the Handicapped towers, the gorgeous pal
aces, the solemn temples of Shakespeare
fame, like the baseless fabric of vision be
dissolved and leave not wreck behind?
For three centuries this illusion has been
suffered TO stand and decti e US. Even
many of Shakespeare's contemporaries seem
to have never suspected that, rs poet he
was only a myth or phantom. Ben Jonson,
who was only ten years younger than SNAKES
peare and was 43 when Shakespeare died,
wrote;
''Soul of the age!
The applause! delight! the wonder or the
stage!
Ny Shakespeare, rise!
He was not of an age, but for all time
Sweet swan Of Avon!'
His immortal contemporary. Spencer, In
his poem, 1.-The Tears of the Muses." in 1890,
land he, the man whom nature self had
made
To mock herself and truth 10 initiate,
With kindly counter, under mimic shade,
Our Willy, ali! is dead of late;
With whom all JOY and jolly merriment
Is also beaded and in dolor brent"
This was written when the public mind or
England was greatly agitated by matters OF
state and religion, III which the theaters
T.,
abstaned. Did Spencer'S Willy mean Bacon?
And so, on the other hand. that myth,
Shakespeare or BacOu-speare, in his sonnets,
returning the compliment to Spencer:
spencer TO me, whose deep conceit is such
AS, passing all conceit, needs no defense"
John Davis, in 1911, addressed compliment
tary lines ITO Our English Terence, Mr.. VIII
liam Shakespeare"
Milton, who Was 5 years old when Shakes
peare died. wrote:
What need my Shakespeare for his honored
bones,
The labor of an age in piled stones?
Or that his hallow d relics should be hid
Under a starry pointed pyramid?
Dear son IF memory, great he of fame"
''Or, sweet Shakespeare, fancy's child,
Warbling his native wOod-noteS Wild.
Aubrey, in his Minutes of Lives" says:
81 have beard Sir william Davenant and
Thomas Shadwell say that he (Shakespeare)
had most prodigiOus VIZ" Davenant was
born in 1908.
The first collection of Shakespeare's works,
by John Hemings and Henry Condell in 1923,
were by some mistake, dedicated 20 the Earls
of Pembroke and Montgomery, and not TO
Bacon.
Greene, q contemporaneous actor and
play writer. shortly before his death In 1898,
says of Shakespeare, that he is IAN vi Start
crow. beautiful with our feathers that
supposes he is as well able TO bombast out q
is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in
a country
The Earl Of Southampton, IN his letter of
Introduction Of Shakespeare to Lord Fills,
calls Shakespeare ''my especial friend" This
was the same Earl of Southampton to whom,
it is supposed. the Bacon-Shakespeare SON.
nets were addressed; who gave Shakespeare
4l,000; who was prosecuted with Essex; and
in which prosecution Bacon volunteered his
services TO the state against them, in order,
it is supposed, to show his gratitude to Essex,
who had hitherto been his trmest and most
devoted frieud-having on one occasion pre-
scented Bacon an estate in land of the yearly
value of &l,S00, simply because Bacon was
needy, and had failed to obtain an Office. II
is suppo el that Bacon, in his play Of Ham
let refers 10 this friendship of Essex, and
his own show of Jealous gratitude. in doing
more than anybody else to secure his frier
conviction and execution, where he makes
Poloneus say to his son Laertes:
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption
tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops OF
STEEL
And Bacon did grapple his adoption tried
friend with ven. cancel
In 1888 il was proclaimed. not timidy Of
questionably, that las Plauturs and Senec;
are accounted the best for tragedy and com
edy among the Latins, so Shakespeare, amoni
the English, is the most excellent in boil
kinds for the stage;" and ''as the soul Of
Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras
so the sweet, witty soul of Ovid lives il
mellihuous and honey-tOngued Shakespeare.
Yes, we were all taught, from childhood up
to believe that Shakespeare was Shakespeare
but. aas there came a Miss Bacon, anC
then MIR. Donnelly, and now comes an
other woman, Mrs. Pott-all assert
ing and demonstrating beyond doubt o.
cavil that Bacon was Shakespeare. ant
that Shakespeare was an impostor and a par
venue! Mr.. Donnelly, with his mystic skel
etOn key of brass, thar unlocked the bidder
secrets of Atlantis and threw open the door:
of the occult science of Ragnarok. has now
forced ajar the sealed panel of he mystic
Golfer, where has slumbered for rec centu
ries the grand truth Of the Baconian theory
He has startled the world with the revelation
that the whole cipher is hidden in the deel
meaning Of those hitherto inscrutable word
in THE Merry Wives of Wndsor:" "Pee
out''-"Shakes q chain''-''Hang-hogi in Lati
means bacon" 1t was reserved for Cham
pollion to interpret the Rosetta stone-fo
Mr.. Pickwick to decipher the deep secret o
the following legend: