The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-15
BACON VERSUS CERVANTEs
IgnatiuS DOnnelly Questions the
Authorship of "Don Quixote."
HIS CIPHER THEORY EXPANDS
He Claims TO Find Traces of Ii in
the ShakesEeartan SonEets as Well
as I'm the Famous Work of the
Spanish writer-A New Cryptic
gram to Appear.

New York. Jan. 15.-The Herald pub
fishes a special from ST. Paul, MIMI.
which states that Ignatius Donnelly is
at work upon IA new Ia CONAN cryptic
gram, which he expects to place in tie
hands OF the publishers in a few weeks.
H. viii take even wider grounds than he
did in mis- first book. lie says he has dis
covered a new rule governing the cipher,
and will assert that Bacon not only wrote
the play Us and sonnet Of shakespeare, bat
that he was possibly responsible for Don
Quixote." For this ne expects another
castigation at the hands OF the critics.
Mr.. Donnelly gave today the first au-
thentic outline OF wha the book will be.
He said.
Il can scarcely expect the public viii
accept unquslifiedIy my statements as %
what | expect the book will establish.
! think everything that Is set forth IN
INV first hook, the Great Cryptogram'
was true, but IN an incomplete form.
i had found the cipher numbers upon
which theinner stor y o, the > ha kespearcan
pia vs. " ere based. and had worked out in
an imperfect way a good deal Of that
,
the rule on which the narrative proceeds,
- that finding one work Of the story,
could tell Just where to look for the next.
"All Ivy spare time for ten years has been
devoted 10 the Ella bora ton OF a new rule,
and | now have no doubt my book will
esta blish the truth that a cipher story
really exists in Shakespeare's plays. AMI
that they are held together by rule as
inrleXiblr and self-apparent as the mul-
tiplicatiOn table.
But the new book viii go beyond this
in some respects. There was originally
over Shakespeare's grave stone CON
tanning the inscription:
Good friend, for Jesus sake, forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blesi > the ma n VINO spares these stones
And curst be he who moves my bones.
THIS was given, in which the biographeTs
of an early period ca lleda strange mixture
oflarge and sma nlettprs distributed without
his philosophical works. De Arguments, set
forth what he called a bi-literal, or twolet-
ter cipher, whereby anything could be eX
pressed, as by two different kinds OF ALPHA
bets or different sizes.
i VIII SHOW tbat the odd lUSfTiptlOn on
res gravestone, where the Bacon
cipher IS applied, works out. by
regular and consecutive rule, these words:
Francis Bacon wrote the Greene, Mar
lowe and Shakespeare plays.
The took VIII then proceed to prove. not
by arithuIet zeal rule. but BY striking EVIL
denCcS and iliustrat IONS, that there Is
cipher in the Shakespeare sonnets which
describe the events iu the times during
which they were written. They describe
the religious wars Of the period. the es-
Ia hlshment OF the first newspaper, the
discoveries Of Gallleo and other striking
and remarkable ulatters.
The name OF Francis Bacon. the words
Francis Bacon and Bacon occur repeat
edly i'll johnson plays aud the naiue Of
Ben Jon~1n Itself Is found in the text OF
these plays.
There are. startling and incredible as
it may seem. illusions TO a great Spanish
work, Don QuiXote. the author OF which
died in the SaHe year as Shakespeare.
These create suspicion that that took,
too. was from the brain of the same
ubiquitous and universal genius, Francis
Bacon"