. The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . ngs* for the garden should sendten cents to James Vicks Sons, Rochester, N. Y.,for Vicks Floral Guide, 1894, which is a perfectbeauty in its gold cover. As the ten cents may bededucted from first order, it really costs nothing. Book Reviews. Sir Francis Bacons Cipher Story. By OrvilleW. Owen. Cloth; 8vo; pp. 200. HowardPublishing Co., Detroit. It is certainly unfortunate that IgnatiusDonnelly should have published a volumeclaiming the discovery of a cipher announc-ing Sir Francis Bacon as author of theShakespearian colle
. The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . ngs* for the garden should sendten cents to James Vicks Sons, Rochester, N. Y.,for Vicks Floral Guide, 1894, which is a perfectbeauty in its gold cover. As the ten cents may bededucted from first order, it really costs nothing. Book Reviews. Sir Francis Bacons Cipher Story. By OrvilleW. Owen. Cloth; 8vo; pp. 200. HowardPublishing Co., Detroit. It is certainly unfortunate that IgnatiusDonnelly should have published a volumeclaiming the discovery of a cipher announc-ing Sir Francis Bacon as author of theShakespearian collection, as, ever since, thereading public have been inclined to lookwith suspicion upon anything relating tosuch topic. One cannot open Doctor Owensbook, however, without discovering that thesimilarity rests with the title alone, and thatthe two authors have proceeded on widelydifferent lines. Donnellys volume has nobasis save in wild theory, while that of Owenis derived from definite data. Indeed, thelatter volume represents the most marvelousdiscovery of the Orville W. Owen, M. D. Even supposing that the claim made thatSir Francis Bacon is the author of Shake-speare is not strictly true, the fact remainsthat a most marvelous consecutive narrativehas been evolved from various volumes, onlya portion of which are claimed for the Bardof Avon, and that,/^r se, give evidence ofbeing the work of one pen. The book isconvincing evidence in itself that either SirFrancis Bacon did write the so-called worksof Shakespeare, or that Doctor Owen hasdiscovered a coincidence even more wonder-ful than the works themselves. The onlyremaining option available to the reader isthat Doctor Owen himself must have con-cocted the work, and if this be true he stillmust be accredited with the most wonderfulliterary production of the century. 120 THE MEDICAL AGE. A great deal of unjust and ignorant criti-cism has followed in the train of the publi-cation of the Cipher Story, for there areShakespeare
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