New-York tribune., 1902-03-19
WORCESTERSHIRE.


fective as 70 allow them to take this CONTROVERSY
sfIolSE, me atglneht Is "tAlnE :" s"l thal e'tG
other. Mr., BomPas does not allow TO Shakespeare
Every lampocq or satirical coupIet Of the period
ne applies to Shakespeare without in most cases
application probable conceivable, ana every
judicial statement Of iudfsputabIe fact Mr cal
vert. on the other hand. brushes aside everything
him as monster Of unreieemed meanness. men
daciry and treacherv He certainty has the great
advantage over Mr. Bompas that he point to
things written by his own hand which. to say the
very least the admirers OF that great man have
In attempting 10 reduce Shakespeare TO the same
the ephemeral expressions of obvious jealousy
Rrrejudice and the peTverse misrepresentation OF
terpretation. He has in addition. 70 ignore many
uprightness and good fellowship OF the man Shake-
speare whom they knew. II seems rather a pity
literature cannot be argued without resort both
The paraIIelisns with which Mr Bompas like
many Of his predecessors. tries 20 bolster up the
cipher itself Sometimes the matter of two pas
sages IS fairly para,Ie and then IL Is al|ays IoanG
places them wide as the poles asunder and
constantly recalls speddines saving that there are
not hye consecutive lines ~ Shakespeare which
could have been written by Bacon. or as many in
Bacon which could have been written by S9akgs-
tears Of POPPY henbane and mandrake The
poppy had been known as a narcotic for thousands
20 D. t'i3 & DdI moaa!' ~ r-itliu a. a. W. - +"
edge and enbams it in the memorable lines;
Not POPPY. nor mandTasora !d cora,
Which thou owedst Yesterday.
This is wbar they can r3ralleI rroyine that
Bacon wrote "Othello", Bacon kept notebook
I'm which he iotted down words Dhras4s and nroy-
crbs tlaf took MS fsnc,- T<.c5iIse rfere Is an
eny e9Itp ss5 Of II the d nse mo T2Td m Ee @
ana juliet Nhen ne does Put ,anythlns or nus
way. The porter in Macbeth's castle being heavy
Ing at he gata ~ inagns bnseI The onfr IN
he and apostrophzes the Knockers As if they were
selL he e~eaims. But this place IS 100 cold Tor
raede 10 cTer ~ o-ts o.'c,,,5 grroar. -, -.
heard tbjs nbrase obviously coined Ef- Sha a4seara
from the context He tries TO puzzle it out for
~ ana IN ms ms n4,rn29h ,l[ IS Thal ne nahes
than what is required Of him II seems rather
can b. clearer than that The man VINO wrote it
could never have thought Of using "deviI-p porter.
of The nueriries rbsr do 5It ss 4rq,,IartS fr.,,,
p@r@IIeH pHr , PaSS"Et5s 5is. ,,t, e ,,.-,.. f,,
the poems. which a:e usually passed SUB silentio
UntI i59 H @ ~, " g,f H. uS p ;l'a toylS MS
az f ~ @ W bL I}t 'l.aI , m m iilg i a. i Ioilg
that Shakespeare was far too rude ana ignorant t.
Bacon's brother Anthony must have written il
quite naturally that Anthony wrote also the t.II-
no M tfitFI.4 lG tftF
nretended The things were written the taracra,
tbat Mr. Romnas has ricgad mn for Ijr,saIf ana
cbrfstered ShaI,esneare r0u11 nor rsz-a u-ritta,r
them Francis T}aror could not have y-tta tte
Therefore Anthony Pacon dfa
MT Calvert nerceIy.s tba ayylU.rduess Of Tho
poems for the Bacon people and draws from them
nna ~ bie rnoet .ffecii,a araIIraTts i,
8dons S Vas 'D Dnbijebed in iq Win dodcti9 ei9 "i
StalJaene"r 10 s;,t ,1a r1rto,' ~ tooL H. pItrliI
nv Storm aditjop after edtion bein ciled for and
IL Tor cbaiyecraara tba r,otiCa ma fa,,r ~
I,Iza Nou- F,acon uronI5 have giltar be oare
he rocIafro himself The a1Itbor eI,r-
cess of thai kind Even If we allow Mrs Caliup's
srv,,noent maj 10 ne nou-p ae a MA write, ,ro,,Id
80 5aragc6 bfs rrGenrrfe ma nne aan ,rntor5
eo,ereirT7 u-bp mo DC Sranser ler oat Ia,,raaf.
Tbere were besides a score or tv,o of iGa Ions
scrfhes who would ha We baeu only TOO glad 10 ron
SbakesDeare of the credit won FOR him nv ne
sSVenus and Adonis Yef there Is u6t a =, hfener
of coDteTnnorary Doubt about his al,fborsbin and
utbat &c equally remarlla bla his contaurorarins
d5 not fnj II Al All strange thai he sbnIIId ba,a
ard ne Gornets No ono Jouftrd ,bat tbe,- y.ar.
written by, SEa kes9eare or found il eJrDris rba
he he cana HE Of writing tbero ! I,,ich
shows thar Shakespearc as known to his conten1-
nora ries was very different nerson from the
Sbakesnear re IMAGINED Nv The Racop v,orSbin,ers
I5eoTie y,ho cannot conceive how Tho mn tbe,
,,ctiI,ra coud have written tba works ~ Sbai,e
,grorarca That fhav rarnot copceye how, Inc tbjn"
80 done fs Of no ir1Dortanca IN the world Con
ternnoraries knew thaf the thing was done and
,Jarstood vii hout any dificuIry that Sba[ecneare re
ala II That anv man horn of woman coIIfd do
s,ab a thing ia NE grant aetCDfebiup nDougn.
bIt the thing 6eng done there Is moi shadow Of
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