The San Francisco call., 1898-01-15
WROTE "DON QUINOTE That Is the Latest Dis cOvery of IgnatiuS
 DOnnelly.
Saws It Has Taken Him Ten Years to Find It
 Out.
Alonq With Some Things Going to Confirm His Shakespearean
 Cryptograna Theory.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 14.-Ignatius Donnelly is at work upon new Ba- conian cryptogram which he expects to place in the hands of his publishers in a few weeks. He will take even wider grounds than he did in his first book He says he has discovered new rule governing ciphers and will assert that Bacon not only wrote the plays and sonnetS of Shakespeare but that he was possibly responsible for Don Ouixote" For this he expects another castigation at the hands of critics
 MT Donneny gave to-day the first authentic outline of what the book will be- He said: T can scarcely ex- pect the public will accept unquali- fiedly my statements as to what l ex- pect the book will establish. l think everything which is set forth in my first book, the Great Cryptogram," was true. but in an incomplete form. T had found the cipher numbers up- l on which the inner story of the Shake ! spearean plays were based, and l had ! worked out in an imperfect way a ! good deal of the narrative. 1 had not l discovered the rule on which the mar rative proceeds, so that. finding one word of the story, I could tell just l spare time for ten years has been de- voted to the elaboration of the new ! rule and I now have no doubt my i book will establish the truth that the cipher story really exists in Shake | speare's plays, and that they are held together by a rule as inflexible and ! seIf-apparent as the multiplication ! table
 But the new book will go beyond this in some respects. There was orig | finally over Shakespeare's grave a stone containing this inscription:
 Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear l To dig the dust enclosed here.
 ] Blest be the man who spares these stones l And curst be he who moves my bones.
 This was given in what the biog- 1 raphers of an early period called a l strange mixture of large and small let | ters distributed without rhyme or reason. Francis Bacon, Tn one of his philosophical works, De Augmentis, " set forth what he called a 'bi-literal or two letter cipher, whereby anything could be expressed by two different kinds of alphabets of different sizes I will show that the odd inscription on 1 Shakespeare's gravestone, when the Bacon bi-literal cipher is applied works out by regular and consecutive rule these words: Francis Bacon wrote the Green, Marlowe and Shake speare plays
 "The book will then proceed to prove not by arithmetical rule, but by strik- ing evidences and illustrations, that there is a cipher of the events of the times in which the plays were written. They describe the religion of the per iod, the establishment of the first ! newspaper, the discoveries of Called and other striking and remarkable matters. The name of Francis Bacon, the words, Francis Bacon,' and 'Ba- con occur repeatedly in Jonsons 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, allusions to the great Spanish work, Don Quixote,' the au- thor of which died in the same year as Shakespeare. These create a suspi- cion that this book, too, was from the brain of the same ubiquitous and uni { versal genius, Francis Bacon"