St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-20
Ignatius Donnelly, It's Ex-
FOUNDER, Pays His Respects
to American Critics.
The Cipher Succeeds Better
in England Than in the
at United States.
Is the Shakespearean Society
Engaged in Efforts to Write
Down the Work?
Home Life Of the Author and
Glimpses Of It's Literary
81 Surroundings.

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Every one here has been so engrossed
in the preparation for the midwinter
Carnival that matters which would Or
dinarlly be regarded with watchful care
scarcely receive recognition. says st.
Paul correspondent of the Chicago
Times. Tomorrow will occur the cere-
mony of laying the corner stone of the
great ice palace, after which the differ
ent committees will engage still more
actively in bringing to perfection their
respective lines of work. 1t is not to
be wondered at, with all this Carnival
confusion that the important advice re-
Gently received here to the effect that
Bishop Ireland will probably soon be
elevated at Rome to an archbishopric,
should be overlooked. The archbishop
ric which will be in charge of the future
archbishop is part of Minnesota and
Dakota, and has formerly belonged to
the province of Archbishop Hennery, of
Milwaukee. 1t is understood that, in
the new division of Catholic ecclesias-
tical territory, Father Cotter, of Winona,
is to be vicar of Southern Minnesota,
Il
the parish priest of st. Paul, will be
vicar of Northern Dakota. Bishop Ire
land is a man OF strong character. He
was in the army during the late civil
war, having joined the Minnesota Fifth
as its chaplain when he was barely
twenty-fOur years of age. He still keeps
up his relations with his old regiment.
His Irish colonization work and his
jealous work for temperance reform are
well known throughout the country.
The home of Ignatius Donnelly, of
Bacon Typographical fame, at Hast
ings, is short distance from ST. Paul.
Mr. Donnelly is just now actively en-
gagged in the publication of his new
book. The work will be published and
ready to deliver to subscribers
SOME TIME In FEBRUARY.
The actual date of publication must
be the same in England and this
country, in order to secure copyright in
both countries. Il sail for London"
said MI. Donnelly, in referring to this
matter, ''abeut Feb. 1, in order to full
fill the requirements of the law by my
personal presence there, which gives
me the rights OF citizenship, and enables
me to get nay copyrightin that country"
MI. ponnelly said that he was much
surprised that the cipher had met with
better acceptance in England than In
this country. The London Telegraph,
| he stated, had devoted about twenty
columns of editorial to it, and that Oh
the whole its criticisms were favorable.
He also stated that his publishers in
Chicago had visited England and
|. placed in the hands of the literary
/ editor of The Telegraph a number of
| specimen proof sheets of Mr.. Donnelly'S
/ cipher work. Edwin Arnold (authOr of
i The Light of Asia is himself cryptol-
OgiSt and after examining the proof
| sheets submitted, published lengthy
} editorial commencing the work.
/ Heretofore" continued Mr.. Don
nellys ''the Baconian theory has never
had fair hearing, but has been pooh
! pO0hed into contempt by lot of scrib-
blers whose ability has only been equal
to believing what some one else had
told them. Since The London Tele-
graph has thrown open its columns to
the discussion, philosophers, scholars,
and men of letters have written OH the
subject, some for and some against, but
all have expressed themselves in
scholarly and dignified way"
The correspondent asked Mr.. Don
nelly what he thought was the
reason that the cipher theory had
been better received in England than
Ill tiiio COuHGIy. 1t Ieplieu tudt There
really seemed in this country deter
mined purpose to write his book down
in advance of its publication, and that
he believed that it originated with the
Shakespeare society, of New York The
officers of that society had written ar
ticles attacking the book before they
knew anything about it, and had also
written letters to Judge Holmes, who is
an avowed Baconian, with the hope that
he would diScredit the book in advance
! OF its publication, which Judge Holmes
had refused to do. sit might SEEM"
continued Mr.. Donnelly, ''to those who
have not examined the question thor
Oughly, that the ShakeSpeareanS had
scored point or two, but to those who
had made the subject the study of life
time the arguments are, as whole, very
shallow. For instance, to prove by the
testimony of contemporaries that
SHAKESPEARE WROTE THE PLAYS,
Wilson Barrett and others have cited
Thomas Fuller as describing the wit
combats which he had witnessed be-
tween Shakespeare and Ben Jonson at
the Mermaid tavern. Now the fact,
which is well subStantiated, is that
Fuller was only eight years of age when
Shakespeare died, and Shakespeare
spent the last years of his life at STRAIT
ford, and what Fuller describes was not
wit cOmbatS, but wet combatS-drink-
ing matches! Some one else cites the
testimony of Milton to show that Shake
speare wrote the plays, but, again, Mil
ton was but seven years old when
Shakespeare died. These two contem-
poraneouS infants could hardly have
left any valuable proof in regard to
Shakespeare having written the plays.
Letters have been produced, to be sure,
but every scholar knows them to be
forgeries. Lawrence Barrett puts the
BacOnianS in the same category with
Huxley, Darwin and Tyndall, and pro-
ceedS to Stay them all with his sword of
lath; and he proves that Shakespeare
wrote the plays because he is buried in
I the picturesque church of his native
| town, under its veryaltar, unconscious of
l the fact that he was buried in the church
I because he was one of the owners of the
I titheS, and as such had right to Sepul-
Ilture there and not because of his author
| ship of the plays, which the good.people of
StratfOrd would not permit to be played
in their town. And then he quotes Ed
I mund Spencer'S lines, written before
Shakespeare wrote his first play, to show
that Shakespeare wrote the plays. When
Prof. Davidson stated in the New York
World that the cipher narrative, as
worked out by me, turned on the num-
boring of page "A of the folio of 1925 a
Mr. Frey, of New York, came forward
with the assertion that the cipher was
ean eimpossibility, because some other
page in the folio far distant from page
IA was sometimes printed with one num-
Der and sometimes with another. A
great deal of cutlery against my book
comes from people who believe in the
preservation of sacred Shams. Lawrence
Barrett says that he protests against the
ingenious undermining of reputation
long established, and the destruction of
belief too sweet and sacred to be idly
questioned These men would like to
have grown men believe in KriS-K rin-
gle. Another argument used to bolster