It is for this reason, mainly, that I wish success to the Baconians.
But there is another reason, less elevated perhaps, but not less
strong for me. I should like to watch the multifarious comedies which
would spring from the downfall of an idol to which for three centuries
a whole world had been kneeling. Glad fancy makes for me a few
extracts from the issue of a morning paper dated a week after the
publication of Mr. Blank's discovery. This from a column of Literary
Notes:
>From Baiham, Sydenham, Lewisham, Clapham, Herne Hill and Peckham comes
news that the local Shakespeare Societies have severally met and
decided to dissolve. Other suburbs are expected to follow.
This from the same column:
Mr. Sidney Lee is now busily engaged on a revised edition of his
monumental biography of Shakespeare. Yesterday His Majesty the King
graciously visited Mr. Lee's library in order to personally inspect
the progress of the work, which, in its complete form, is awaited with
the deepest interest in all quarters.
And this, a leaderette:
Yesterday at a meeting of the Parks Committee of the London County
Council it was unanimously resolved to recommend at the next meeting
of the Council that the statue of Shakespeare in Leicester Square
should be removed.
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