CONTENTS.
PREFACE.
Chapter I. SOURCES OF INFORMATION.
Chapter II. THE STOCK FROM WHICH BACON CAME.
Chapter III. FRANCIS BACON, 1560 TO 1572
Chapter IV. AT CAMBRIDGE.
Chapter V. EARLY COMPOSITIONS.
Chapter VI. BACON'S "TEMPORIS PARTUS MAXIMUS."
Chapter VII. BACON'S FIRST ALLEGORICAL ROMANCE.
Chapter VIII. BACON IN FRANCE, 1576-1579.
Chapter IX. BACON'S SUIT ON HIS RETURN TO ENGLAND, 1580.
Chapter X. THE RARE AND UNACCUSTOMED SUIT.
Chapter XI. BACON'S SECOND VISIT TO THE CONTINENT AND AFTER.
Chapter XII. IS IT PROBABLE THAT BACON LEFT MANUSCRIPTS HIDDEN AWAY?
Chapter XIII. HOW THE ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE WAS PRODUCED.
Chapter XIV. THE CLUE TO THE MYSTERY OF BACON'S LIFE.
Chapter XV. BURGHLEY AND BACON.
Chapter XVI. THE 1623 FOLIO EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS.
Chapter XVII. THE AUTHORIZED VERSION OF THE BIBLE, 1611.
Chapter XVIII. HOW BACON MARKED BOOKS WITH THE PUBLICATION OF WHICH HE WAS CONNECTED.
Chapter XIX. BACON AND EMBLEMATA.
Chapter XX. SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS.
Chapter XXI. BACON'S LIBRARY.
Chapter XXII. TWO GERMAN OPINIONS ON SHAKESPEARE AND BACON.
Chapter XXIII. THE TESTIMONY OF BACON'S CONTEMPORARIES.
Chapter XXIV. THE MISSING FOURTH PART OF "THE GREAT INSTAURATION."
Chapter XXV. THE PHILOSOPHY OF BACON.
APPENDIX.
THE MYSTERY
OF
FRANCIS BACON
BY
WILLIAM T. SMEDLEY.
Ad D.B.
"Si bene qui latuit, bene vixit, tu bene vivis:
Ingeniumque tuum grande latendo patet." |
| —John Owen's Epigrammatum, 1612. |
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1912.
"But such is the infelicity and unhappy disposition of the human mind in the course of invention that it first distrusts and then despises itself: first will not believe that any such thing can be found out; and when it is found out, cannot understand how the world should have missed it so long."
—"Novum Organum," Chap. CX.
