The Mystery of Francis Bacon

CONTENTS.

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Preface		5
CHAPTER
I. —	Sources of Information	9
II. —	The Stock from which Bacon Came	14
III. —	Francis Bacon, 1560 to 1572	19
IV. —	At Cambridge	25
V. —	Early Compositions	29
VI. —	Bacon's "Temporis Partus Maximus"	36
VII. —	Bacon's First Allegorical Romance	47
VIII. —	Bacon in France, 1576-1579	52
IX. —	Bacon's Suit on His Return to England, 1580	62
X. —	The "Rare and Unaccustomed Suit"	76
XI. —	Bacon's Second Visit to the Continent and After	82
XII. —	Is it Probable that Bacon left Manuscripts Hidden Away?	94
XIII. —	How the Elizabethan Literature was Produced	98
XIV. —	The Clue to the Mystery of Bacon's Life	103
XV. —	Burghley and Bacon	114
XVI. —	The 1623 Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays	123
XVII. —	The Authorised Version of the Bible, 1611	126
XVIII. —	How Bacon Marked Books with the Publication of Which He Was Connected	132
XIX. —	Bacon and Emblemata	140
XX. —	Shakespeare's Sonnets	148
XXI. —	Bacon's Library	156
XXII. —	Two German Opinions on Shakespeare and Bacon	161
XXIII. —	The Testimony of Bacon's Contemporaries	170
XXIV. —	The Missing Fourth Part of "The Great Instauration"	177
XXV. —	The Philosophy of Bacon	187
	Appendix	193

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