The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-21
PUSH SHAKESPEARE
OFF THE EARTH
The Stern Programme Adopted
by English Baconians j. O.
Hobbies Works for Charity.
Special Foreign Service.

| special F'Ore1Sn Service.
LONDON, Sept. 20. = Mrs. Gallop
who wrote the Bi-Literal Cipher of
| Bacon" probably is beginning to have
some hope of this country That is, if
the latest American advocate of the
theory that Queen Elizabeth'S council
| Tor was the real bard has heard of the
| stirring programme just adopted by
Baconians here. Mrs. Gallop and her
] belief Jared SO badly in England that
the lady had good cause to despair of
| the netherlands regeneration in this
respect, but even she should ask for
| nothing better than the new pro-Ba-
con crusade Just started here to sweep
Shakespeareans off the EARTH" So far
! as known, American Baconians have
never been accused of a lack of enter
prise, but the English anti Shakespeare
society, which had itself formally in
| corporated at Somerset house the 9TH
| er day, is determined to show it's
brethren the world over how the work
! of convincing humanity that the Swan
| of Avon was humbug should be done.
Besides promising to keep paid search
ers busy ransacking old Libraries for
evidence as to the soundness of their
belief and TO publish the results broad
cast, Harold Bayley, the society's sec
rotary, who is big chief among the
Baconians, says: I'VE mean to send
out host of speakers who, with the
help of lantern lectures, will convince
the majority of people that our belief
is we'll founded. In fact we wish to
convert the man in the street to the
opinion that Bacon was the author of
the plays and works in question:
I'VE wish to be taken seriously by
the public" Mr.. Bayley goes on, win
ningly, for our views are based upon
what we consider to be convincing
circumstantial evidence And for that
reason we have undertaken propa-
ganda that ought to sweep the
Shakespeareans off the earth
Busy as Mrs. Craigie has been of
late with the various enterprises, both
literary and dramatic, which she has
on hand, the writer who still clings to
her pen name of John Oliver Hobbies
has found time to give some attention
to charitable work She is now in the
Isle of Wight, and was one of the stall
holders at a garden fete and bazaar
held at Ventnor the other day under
Battenberg in aid of the Royal Nation
al hospital at st. Lawrence
Sir Gilbert Parker is one of the COM
paratiVely few English novelists who
like their own country better than the
continent as holiday ground. He
has been recreating recently at Harro-
gate, the Yorkshire resort which Mime.
ionable folk also are patroniizng.
When Mrs. Flora Annie SteePs hus-
band was summoned" the other day
to explain in court why his wife's little
girl protege was not sent to school
regularly, most people here learned for
the first time that the famous writer
was engaged in bringing up a child.
AS matter of fact, Mrs. Steel adopted
Annie Mason about two years ago. The
10 c145 hut tha
thoress took her to her country home,
near Towyn, Merionithshire, and there
set about rearing her according to her
own ideas, teaching her how to do
housework at home in the summer and
sending her to school in the winter.
But English law is rather strict in
such matters and So the other day
Mr.. Steel was bounced upon by it's rep
reSentatives and asked why Annie was
! kept at home during the summer school
term. Whereupon the gentleman went
| into court and explained his wife's
ideas for the little girls instruction to
the local magistrate so convincingly
that the latter promptly declared that
no interference was necessary.
Apropos of the coming ceremony of
| planting in the lawn in front of South
Wark Town hall the sapling mulberry
tree from Shakespeare's garden re-
| Gently presented to Southwark by the
mayor OF StrdttOrd- On-AVOn it has
been recalled that, while in England,
Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in a cot
tage which stood in this London dis
tr1ct, and upon almost the exact site
now occupied by the town hall. This,
however, was in 1853 and long before
Southwark had become a poor locality,
as it mostly is today. The authoress
described her stopping place as "a
charming retreat called Rose Cot
tage' and from it she wrote 81 can
!! look out at a window and see a nice
| green meadow with sheep and lambs
! feeding in it"
Today there are neither lambs nor
| green meadows in Southwark, but
there are interesting literary associa-
tons besides that connected with the
author of "Uncle Toms Cabin" for
| Southey once lived in the district and
Browning was baptized there
1t is rather surprising that literary
man of as much experience Ns Alfred
Allison-chosen by the Methuens re-
Gently to edit their new edition of
Dumas-should have made so great a
blunder as that of which he has Just
| been convicted. There was surprise
among Dumas enthusiasts generally
when it was announced that the second
two volumes of the new edition would
be entitled respectively Robin Hood"
and "A Prince of ThieveS'-the one be-
ing a sequel to the other-for stories of
England were not exactly in the
| F'renchman's line; but, as it had been
explicitly announced that the edition