FRANCIS BACON

AND HIS SHAKESPEARE

Not to prove it, but perhaps to show it, to make it manifest.

CHICAGO

The Sargent Publishing Company

1556 MONADNOCK BLOCK

1895

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY,

MAY 13 1899
CAMBRIDGE, MASS

босивет,

The Verulam Souley,
Boston,

THE DIAL PRESS.

Copyright, 1895, by
THERON S. E. DIXON.

TO MY WIFE,

BERTHA L. DIXON,

THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED; FOR IT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED

EXCEPT FOR HER LOVING-KINDNESS AND HER FAITHFUL CO-OPERATION.

T. 8. E. D.