The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-21
COMMENT
WE PUBLISH BELOW A FEW OF THE
MANY COMMENTS BEING MADE BY
THE PRESS OF THE COUNTRY
UPON MIR. DONNELLY's
NEW BOOK.
PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT THEM.
SELVES READ THE BOOK CAN
FIND HERE WHAT THE Ma
TION'S LITERARY PEOPLE
THINK OF 1T.

Inc greatest and strongest book that has
yet been written on the Shakespeare Bacon
controversy. Chicago Times Herald
frederick B. Stevenson, secretary OF the
Press Club. Of Chicago writes:
1t is marvellous book. l am astounded
by its immensity"
The cipher is no longer question of pos
sibilities. 1t is now reduced to a question
of mathematics. We must accent it as .
fact. The Minneapolis Tribune
A most curious and interesting work The
mechanical part is of high order The
editing is exceptionally good. 1t is a stu
dents book. OF the subject matter of the
work l must frankly confess my inability to
form fair estimate. 1t Is most wonder
fully ingenious. The amount of labor and
research expended in the preparation Is al
most beyond calculation. It's reasoning and
conclusions are SO startling that l stand ap-
me 1t is all iconoclasm. All the idols Of the
immortal Elizabethan age lie in dust be-
fore me. And as Saul became Paul, SO to
me has Ignatius Donnelly become Iconoclast
No! No! 1t is almost beyond the belief that
any man, however Ingenious however great
his motive, In those stirring times in the
very center of the whirlpool of literary ac-
tivity, could have given the world all those
profoundly grand dramas and concealed his
lUcuIIty. DuI whether IL DC 0SLdOll6l0O Dy
this marvellous work, that which we have al
ways believed to be William Shakespeare's
work, is really Francis Bacon's, Ignatius
DOnnelly has written his name on the i'm
perishable roll Of scholars. He is a profound
and masterful writer His very sincerity
and earnestness compel our respect and at
tention. The style is clear and pure, using
the very queens English, and the diction is
beautiful. This work will demand atten-
ton not only from scholars in the English
language, but from all lovers of the drama,
especially the Germans and Italians who
are as good, if not better Shakespearean
students as their English brethren -
Seattle WASH, Daily Times.
ut begins to look as if there were some
meaning in the apparently indiscriminate
use of the large and small letters in the in
scription on the tombstone It would be
impossible in the space allotted to this ar
ticle to show the writer's method in work
ing out the cipher on the tombstone and
the cipher in the playa task for which he
himself requires 1858 pages. He shows the
ncongruity of the arrangement Of large and
small letters in the inscription on the
early tombstone. He shows that even the
Ignorance of a rude stone cutter would not
cause him to carve the word SAKE in capt.
tails, and the word Jesus Immediately pre-
ceding it in small letters. He shows that
the use of the hyphen, especially In dividing
the word 'Enclo- Ased,' and the word
H E. r e are not mere accident. He takes
these dashes, these periods and these divis
ions as his starting points in working out
his theory, and by system that Is marvel
Gus in its ingenuity, he gives US the result
OF the cipher applied to the inscription on
the tombstone:
FRANCIS BACON WROTE THE GREENE,
MARLOWE AND SHAKESPEARE
PLAYS.
Chfcooo Tpos uarald