Coincidences, Bacon and Shakespeare . vumOrganurn, ever made so great a revolution in the mode of think-ing, overthrew so many prejudices, introduced so many new opin-ions. Every part of it blazes with wit, but with wit which is em-ployed only to illustrate and decorate truth. Art. Under the head of art we have in the inscription as ourthird exemplar the Author of the ^neid. This is perhaps thehappiest inspiration of all in the matter before us, for it serves toexplain and justify the finest piece of literary criticism ever madeon Francis Bacon. We give it without comment: There is something a
Coincidences, Bacon and Shakespeare . vumOrganurn, ever made so great a revolution in the mode of think-ing, overthrew so many prejudices, introduced so many new opin-ions. Every part of it blazes with wit, but with wit which is em-ployed only to illustrate and decorate truth. Art. Under the head of art we have in the inscription as ourthird exemplar the Author of the ^neid. This is perhaps thehappiest inspiration of all in the matter before us, for it serves toexplain and justify the finest piece of literary criticism ever madeon Francis Bacon. We give it without comment: There is something about him not fully understood or discernedwhich, in spite of all curtailments of his claims in regard to onespecial kind of eminence or another, still leaves the sense of hiseminence as strong as ever. George L. Craik. The discrepancy between the bust (which all goodjudges say has no more individuality or power than JS2 COINCIDENCES a boys marble ) and the inscription under it may bedismissed. BACON AND SHAKESPEARE 133 Droeshout Portrait (as reputed) of the Stratford Shakspere. This is the portrait inserted as a frontispiece in thefolio editions of Shake-speare, beginning in 1623,seven years after the reputed authors death. It ishardly considered as the likeness of a human being. Mr. Boaden, in his Portraits of Shakespeare *(1824), calls it an abominable libel on humanity. Richard Grant White, a hard wooden staringthing. 134 COINCIDENCES Dr. Ingleby, ** such a montrosity that I for one donot believe it had any trustworthy exemplar. Mr. Norris, in his Portraits of Shake-speare, , says, * it is not known from what it was copied,and many think it unlike any human being. Dr. Appleton Morgan, President of the New YorkShakespeare Society : The face has the wooden ex-pression familiar in the Indians used as signs fortobacconists shops, accompanied by an idiotic starethat would be but a sorry advertisement for the hum-blest establishment in that Trade. Mr. Skottowe,
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