St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-28

book learning of the author was very
defective, and that DO historian like
Bacon would have ever made these
mistakes which caused Ben JOnSon to
laugh at them.
TIE writer of the plays was indiffer-
ent to time, place and circumstance 10
which Bacon was devoted. The plays
show that they contain the scholarship
OF wisdom and not the scholarship of
the college.
MIR. Donnelly had undertaken to prove
that the writer of the plays must have
been brilliant lawyer because the legal
phrases were perfectly correct, and legal
aspects introduced into the plays could
not be coEtroverted. Twenty-four voca-
tons claimed Shakespeare as member,
which proved he belonged to none. If
he was lawyer, he must have been a
clergyman, soldier, sailor, doctor, etc.
Shakespeare was not a college-bred
man, and it was claimed that on that
account he could not have written the
plays. Neither Jonathan Swift nor Sir
waiter Scott were university men, yet
they had written most brilliant works.
Shakespeare had played with his
company many times before the court
of Elizabeth, and he mixed with the
mobiles of the day in the court, clubs and
famous inns, and it was from these as
soclationS he had obtained his insight
into the workings of the various callings
which claimed him.
AS to the reference in Mr.. DOnnelly'S
"CryptOgram' that st. Adams was fire.
quently mentioned, showing that Bacon
had inserted the word Intentionally, as
1t was his home, there was no proof that
he had ever lived there, while War
wickshire, where Shakespeare lived. was
mentioned tWenty-nine times. Of the
names used in the plays. % per
cent were names which can be found in
the records of Stratford on Avon, show
ing that Shakespeare had used the
names familiar to him from his youth.
Ii Bacon had coined 5000 new words in
the plays, as stated by Mr.. DOnnelly, it
would have resulted in the plays being
unIntelllgible TO the audiences before
which they were played, and for whom
they were written. Goethe had said of
Shakespeare, ''He drew sponge over
the whole table of human knowledge"
Prof. freeman was greeted with loud
applause at the close of his address, and
Mr. DOnnelly then replied IN a fifteen
minute speech.
MIR. DOnneIly in Response.
Mr.. DOnnelly, who was in very
happy frame of mind, said that his op-
ponent had proved to the audience that
the man who wrote the plays was the
most ignorant of his time. AS to the
game of billiards mentioned in An
thony and Cleopatra" the human en-
cyclopedia who wrote the plays knew
that the game was older than the time
OF Cleopatra. How could Shakespeare
have written the plays when
it was admitted that he was
not college bred man? Why
whole sentences and scenes were
written IN French, and words and
phrases translated from Italian, Span
ish, Latin and Greek, and, though
Shakespeare might have had the fac
ulty, he never conld have done this by
hanging around the grOgshops of Lon
don. AS TO the introduction of certain
words in the plays, such as ''pistol."
cannon" printing" when such
things did not exist at the time of the
plays action, why this was done to
preserve the internal narrative which
demanded it, for he cared but
little for the plays themselves
as he did for his hidden pur-
Lincoln was not well taken, said Mr..
DOnnelly, for if Mr.. Lincoln had en-
belhshed his speeches with quotations
from the classics and foreign languages,
instead of using plain Anglo-SaXon, the
natural assumption, knowing the story
of his life, would be that some one had
written them for him, Chauncey Depew
for instance. CrhiS remark gave rise to
loud laughter.) Stress had been laid by
Prof. Freeman on the mention of War
wickShire in the plays, yet not a men
ton was made anywhere to Stratfo I'd
Oh Avon, yet st. Adams was mentioned
frequently.
The reason that Bacon did not admit
his authorship of the plays was that he
was noble, connected with the nobleSt
families of England, and he would have
been diSgraced and ruined if it were
known that he was the author of plays
presented in the low theaterS of the
time. which did not even possess a roof,
and were the rendezvous of the appren-
tees of that day.
The Professor Closes.
The fifteen minutes having expired,
Prof. Freeman once more took the
rostrum and said he would show that
Francis Bacon was not poet, as had
been claimed. lie wrote three Mosques
which were so wretchedly bad that they
were expunged from the fifteen vol
they were doggerel of the worse kind,
and would not reflect any credit
upon child in any school in
st. Paul. Bacon was claimed
as poet, and he wrote verses for Es-
sex. who desired by that means to be
recOnciled to the queen. who was very
romantic. The verses must have been
very bad, for Essex died upon the scat
fold.
Mr.. Donnelly had undertaken to prove
that in the letter which Sir Toby Math-
ews had sent to Sir Francis Bacon, ac-
knowledging the receipt of valuable
book, that the book was copy of the
plays, and that the postscript. The
best wit [ know of our nation,
this side of the sea, is
of your lordship's name, though known
by another" really referred to his
authorship of the plays, which he had
cOnfided to his dear friend Mathews.
Such was not the case. What the post
script really meant was that the best
wit, who at presents in Spain (this side
of the sea- is Sir Francis Cottingham
(ot your lordship's namey, who was
travelling as MIR. Smith Though known
by another),ln company with the princes
of the blood and the Duke of Bucking-
ham.
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