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as facts, but OF late exploded, promises TO
receive u most startling addition. Hon.
Ignatius Donnelly, OF Minnesota, announces
that he has discovered In the Shakespeare
plays n curiously interviewer cipher nara
tive which proves beyond the shadow OF
doubt that there was never such q man as
we all imagine William SHAKESPEARE 10 have
been; that the plays which all the world
unites In placing at the head Of The worlds
literature were written by Francis Bacon,
England's great jurist and philosopher; that
they were produced by Bacon In order 70
skeep the wolf from the door," and nj the
same time 10 inculcate doctrines which his
political aspirations and his regard for his
own personal safety prevented HIM from
proclaiming publicly over his own name,
and that they were sold 20, and published
under the name of "A comparatively ignorant
play-actor and theatre manager. The cipher
narrative. which Gov. Donnelly uBrayels
out OF the first complete edition OF the plays,
printed in 1923, also discloses other startling
facts, and Is In fact secret OF that eventual
period which Is known as the Elizabethan
era
The Dook I'm which Mr.. Donnelly makes
public his discovery. has just been issued,
aud It's title Is "The Great Cryptogram:
Francis Bacon's Cipher in the Shakspere
Plays" IL IL a large ostayo volume OF 1000
pages, and is divided into three parts or
books: Book THE Argument Book IL
The Demonstration. Book III-Conclusions.
In Book /. Gov. Donneliy gives his reasons
for believing that William SHAKESPEARE could
not possibly have written the plays, and that
Lord Bacon is the real author. Book III
tells us just how lac was led 10 think that
there must be concealed cipher In the first
edition Of the immortal writings, and shows
in detail the successive steps in his progress
towards n solution OF the problem. IL also
gives the story as unrayeled and the mathe-
NAUTICAL calculation for each word obtained.
This portion of the volume also contains fac
SMILES from the original folio so marked
and numbered. that Mr.. Donnelly's work may
be traced aud verified by the reader. Book
III, gives a compact history or the Bacon
Shakspere controversy and sh ort biogra-
phies OF eminent Baconians and one chapter Is
devoted 10 Francis Bacon himself wherein
Mr.. Donnelly proves the fallacy OF the popu-
lar opinion concerning Bacon's character.
Throughout Mr.. Donnolly writes In an easy,
entertaining style, such as will hold the at
tention Of the rcader,and the chapters on the
meaning and purposes Of the immortal plays
In question will, aside from the cipher dis
covery, make the author favorite Tor all
time. From a typographical standpoint the
volume IN credit TO the art preseryative, be-
ing beautifully printed, with engraved titles
and numerous illustrations, all of very high
order. X. :. Peale a. Co, Chicago and Ion
don, are the publishers, and the work IL sold
by subscription.
Ine nfht part OF MI. DODntiil DOoh CoN-
ers every part OF the Bacon-Shakspere
controversy, and Is model argument It's
safe TO say that no question was ever more
thoroughly handled or more conyincingly
presented.
AS 10 the CIPHER, this we do not as yet at
tempt 10 master. ms IL would take careful
study OF several weeks 10 do IL justice. The
mathematicians who have investigated Mr..
Donnclly's cipher--in fact the only two men
who have had time thus far 10 study IL SUI
fciently 10 give an honest yerdict-are Prof.
Elias Colbert, of Dearborn Observatory, Chi
cago, and Mr.. George Parker Bidder, q. o.,
Il. II. 5. A., OF London. Both OF these gen.
tlcmen nave Endorsed Dir. Donnelly's claims.
Prof. Colbert says: 81 am compelled TO
indorse the claim made by Donnelly that he
has found cipher In some OF the plays IL
can be intelligently traced by explanations
gwen by him. do not say, nor does he
claim, that no has discovered the complete
cipher; aud think II very likely that some
Of the readings he gives will bear modifica-
ton in the light OF subsequent knowledge.
But the cipher is there"
Mr.. Bidder has investigated the cipher for
the Nineteenth Century Revietc, the leading
magazine In England, and In his report he
says he has made an exhaustive study or the
case, verifying the countings. etc, OF the
cipher story, and that In his opinion the
wonderful condolences shown by Mr. Don
nelly could not possibly be due TO chance
that he believed Mr.. Donnelly TO be right,
and that there n n cipher In the plays, posi-
bly, several and that they were probably In
tcrwoven into the text by Bacon. Although