Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-16

the the shakespearean plays was based and
mad worked out in an imperfect way
a good deal Of that narrative. At that
time. however, had not discovered the rule
on which the narrative proceeds so that.
finding one word of the story, l could tell
Just where to look for the next.
During the last ten years all my spare
III .ime mas been devoted to the elaboration
OF new rule. and / now have no doubt
that my book will establish in the minds
or tho people the truth that a cipher story
held together by a rule as infiexible and as
self-apparent as the multiplication table.
But the new book will go beyond this in
some respects. There was originally over
Shakespeare's grave stone containing this
rude inscriptions:
Good friend. for Jesus Sake Forbsar.
To dig the Dust Enclosed Here.
Blest be The Man Who Spares These Stones
And curst Be He Who Moves My Bones.
This was given in what the biographers
of an early period called a strange mix
ture OF large and small letters distributed
without rhyme or reason.
sopbisaI wasb in Sne Of his phypho
forth what he called biliteraI or two
letter, cipher, whereby anything could be
expressed as by two different kinds of al
phabets st,'. Of & different sizes 1 will show in
Shakespeare's gravestone. when the Bacon
biliteral cipher is applied. works out, by a
saeon Wroe re the %as
lowe and Shakespeare plays"
Mr.. Donnelly made this observation with
considerable force, showing that he at
least; believed all he said was incontro-
THE book will then proceed to prove"
he added, mot by arithmetical rule but by
striking evidences and Illustrations, that
| there is cipher In the Shakespearean SON
nets. which describe the events in the times
during which they were written. They de-
scribe the religious wars of the period, the
establishment of the first newspaper the
| discoveries of Gallileo and other striking
and remarkable matters. The name of
Bacon occur repeatedly in Jonson's $
plays, and the name of Ben Jonson itself is
found in the text of these plays. There are
even as. startling and incredible. as 1t may
seem, illusions to the great Spanish work
Don Quixote.' the author of which died In
the same year that Shakespeare did. which
creates a suspicion that that. too was from
the brain OF the same ubiquitous and uni
versal genius. Francis Bacon.
The closing part of the forthcoming book
of the cipher story of the first and second
Henry ". plays, in which the whole his
tory of ShakeSpeareS youth is narrated
Some of this was given in my first book
| but, as 1 have said, in an imperfect man
ner. / believe that, In the. way 1t will be
presented in my new book. 1t will carry the
judgment of mankind with it, Just as soor
as the manuscript is ready there will be
| placed before the public an abstract of the
| substance of the book and specimens Of the
carry convictions with them. In the mean.
| time am satisfied to work on quietly as
have for the last ten years. and leave the
| whole matter unnoticed until the resume is
put forth. l have been rather roughly
| Il Ieated by critics, and yet cannot greatly
wonder al It, for l was assailing not only
| the belief but the sentiment, and doing 1t
| too. with an imperfect weapon.