The times., 1898-01-16
BACON VERSUS C[RVANT[s
Ignatius Donnelly Questions the
authorship of ''Don Quixote. :"
HIS CIPHER THEORY EXPANDS
He Claims to Find Traces of 1t in
the ShakesEearean Sonnets as Well
In the Famous Work of the
Spanish Writer-A New Crypto-
gram to Appear.

| New York, Jan. I5.-The II erald pub
fishes special from st. Paul, MIMI,
| which states that Ignatius Donneliy is
| at work upon a new Ba aconian cryptic
| gram, which he expects to place in tie
| hands OF the publishers in a few weeks.
| He Will ia Ike even wider grounds than he
| did in his first book. He says he has dis
| covered new rule governing the cipher,
/ and VIII assert tnat Bacon not only wrote
the plays and sonnets OF Shakespeare, but
that he was possibly responsible for Don
| Quixote." For this he expects another
castigation at the hands of the critics.
| Mr.. Donnelly gave today the first atl-
thentic outline OF what the book Will be.
| He said:
II can scarcely expect the public will
accept unqualifiedIy my statements as to
what l expect the book VIII establish.
1 think everything that is set forth in
my first book, the Great Cryptogram"
was true, but in an incomplete form.
II had found the cipher numbers upon
which the inner stor y OF the Sha akespearean
| plays W ere based, and had worked out in
an imperfect way good deal OF that
| narrative. had not discovered however,
the rule on which the narrative proceeds,
so that finding one work OF the story, 1
could tell Just where to look for the next.
"All my spare time for ten years has been
devoted TO the ella bora ton of new rule,
and l now have no doubt my book will
esta biish the truth that a cipher story
really exists in Shakespeare's plays, and
that they are held together by a rule as
inflexible and self-apparenU as the null
tiplication table.
But the new book will go beyond this
in some respects There was originally
over Shakespesre's grave stone con-
tanning the inscription:
Good friend, for Jesus sake, forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blest De the ma II who spares these stones
And cCrst be he who moves my bones.
''This was given, in which the biographers
OF an early period ca lleda strange mixture
oflaree and srna n letters distributed without
rhyme or reason Francis Bacon, in one OF
his phiioso pbical works, De Augrnentis, set
forth what he called bi-literaI, or two let
ter cipher, whereby anything could be ex-
pressed, as by two different kinds of alpha
bets or different sizes.
Il Will show that the odd inscription on
Shakespeare's grayestone, where the Bacon
bi-literai cipher is applied, works out, by a
regular and consecutive rule, these words:
Francis Bacon wrote the Greene, Mar
lowe and Shakespeare plays.
THE book will then proceed to prove, not
by arithmetical rule, but by striking evil
dences and Illustration that there is
cipher in the Shakespeare sonnets which
describe the events in the times during
which they were written. They describe
the religious wars OF the period, the
tablishrnent of the first newspaper, the
discoveries OF Gallileo and other striking
and remarkable matters.
The name OF Francis Bacon, the words
Francis Bacon and Bacon occur repeat
edly in Johnson's plays, and the name OF
Ben Jonson itself is found in the text OF
these plays.
There are, startling and incredible as
it may seem. illusions to great Spanish
work, Don Quixote, the author OF which
died in the sstne year as Shakespeare.
These create a suspicion that that book,
too, was from the brain of the same
ubiquitous and universal genius, Francis
Bacon"