St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-12
VERSATILE LADY WILDE
Ali Her Years of Study Went TO
Naught at Her Drawing Room.

Ali Her Years of Study Went for
Naught at Her Drawing Room.
New York Sun.
There is no more st triking or interest
ing personality in London than that of
Lady Wilde, who rec elves always in a
darkened room, where the light from
single candle falls ever upon her rare
old jewels and refined face, attracting
the stranger directly to the hostess,
whose charming tact cOnvlnceS every
visitor, however unimpOrtant OF un-
known, that she is the receiver of spe-
cial consideration. The warmth of the
welcome is enhanced by the power to
greet each guest. French, Spanish. Ital-
ian, Russian, OF German, in her own
language.
This gifted person delights in telling
how hard she worked to fit herself for
entering society. studying many lam
guageS and preparing herself to talk
ably on many subjects. Butat her first
reception in the world all the people
said only "How do you do?' and "It IS
a charming day" And at her next
drawing room all the people made the
same interesting remarks, and after
little she learned that it was more agree
able to the world if she herself said only
"How do you do?' and sit is pleas
ant day. than if she made herself and
every one else uncomfort able with her
serious thoughts aud opini Ons. Lady
and witty little American lady, look
ing up at her and hearing her talk in diff
ferent tongues, said that Lady Wilde
reminded her of the Tower of Babel
Nuts for Donnelly to Crack.
DR.. William j. Rolfe in North American Re-
view.
l have said that the merely typo
graphical or mechanical impertections
of the Folio suf1ic to prove that the
work is none OF Bacon's. Ihave not re-
ferred, and shall now refer only in the
briefest manner, to wholly different
class of facts that lead inevitably to the
same conclusion. Ii the Folio were
as well printed as any of Bacon's ac-
knowledged works-the Essays" of
1925. for eXample-there would still
be internal evidence. abundant and
decisive, that the volume cannot be
the authors final revision of
his dramatic productions. Ger
tain of the plays are manifestly moth
ing more than slight remodeling of
earlier work by other bands. Others
are apparently pieces left unfinished.
and completed by another playwright
in some instances by one so inferior that
the author cannot be supposed to have
been partv to the transaction. If it be
said that all the matter is from one and
the same hand, this is not absolutely in
conceivable if the collecting and pub
fishing of the works have been done by
an incompetent or Inscriptions editor
after the authors death: but how can
we explain it if the author himself is
editor? Why, to refer to single play,
should ''Timon of Athens" be left in
the state in which the ''Folio'' gives it
pure gold with large admixture
of the basest alloy, stuff utterly
unworthy the prentice days of the
dramatist? Scarcely critic of the
present century has been willing to re-
& ard the play as. the work of a single
hand. Portions of it are written in the
merest burlesque of verSe-as if the
author had no ear, unless an asinine
One-and the thought and sentimentare
in keeping with the versiication; while
the other portions bear the marks of the
poets maturest period. According to
the Baconians this was one of the latest
plays. if not the latest play, their philos-
opher wrote; and Iimon is meant to
represent himself, deserted by his para
site friends after his fall. Could Bacon
have written it as we have it, or. if any
inferior writer had share in it, would
Bacon have printte, it all as his own?
These and similar questions have never
been put to the BaconianS, SO far as |
am aware, and | respectfully submit
them to NJ. Donnellyis consideration.