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18 UNN Z, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAx, -— ' NEW THEORY AS TO WHO " Wrote Shakespeare Reportgd THIS TIME IN A DIALOGUE. By L. Du Pont Syle. > HAVE & great contempt for the theory that Bacon wrote Shake- epesre,” sald the Lady of Large Dis- crimination; “Donnelly’s eryptogram is & fraud upon the face of it, vet I have a secret sympathy for what Don- nelly was trying to do. He had just the same fecling about Shakespeare I've often yself.” e ung what was that, pray?” 1 asked very meekly, for it was e\'\:lent that the y was terribly in earnest. Lt‘;'hm-e often felt,” she replied unhesi- tatingly, “that such a man as we know Shakespeare to have been could never have written such beautiful plays and so meny of them. Just think; a country Jout with little or no education, a fugi- tive from justice, a holder of horses around theater doors, a hanger-on behind the scenes, & poor actor in small parts, & hard drinker and a close-fisted land- Jord, & parasite at rich men's tables— “Hold, hold!” I said deprecatingly, “the evidence for the accusations you hurl at the sweetest-tempered soul—"" & “Sweetest-tempered fiddlesticks,” re- plied the Lady; “and as for evidence, can you deny that the facts, as given in any good life of Shakespeare, will bear'the interpretation I have put on them? “T admit they will bear that interpreta- tion, but still that is not the interpreta- tion & charitable man would put on them.” “Chariteble MAN, indeed! Charitable MAN! Of course not. That's because you're & man. You men always hang to- gether. Suppose, now, that Shakespeare had been & woman and had done all those things; would you believe she could have created such characters as Portia and Mirenda?" “I must confess that I never heard of a good book being written by a bad wo- man.” “Nor by a bad man, either,” replied the Lady, triumphently. “What is it Milton say! “Before a man can be & good poet he must be a good man.’ Don’t you be- lieve that?” ot entirely.” “Well, I do,” sald, the Lady, with con- viction, “and that settles it so far as I am concerned. I tell you that Shakespeare, being what he was, COULDN'T have writ- ten all those lovely plays.” “Then who did? They didn't descend from the heavens above, nor vet 4id they srise from the waters beneath.” “I have a theory —much better than Donnelly’s.” “I pray you, expound.” “Well, it's just this,” said the Lady with the utmost seriousness: ‘“After Shake- speare had tried playwriting and failed—" “Tried and failed!” “Of course—tried and falled. The evi- dence is perfectly clear for that His first play was ‘Love’s Labor's Lost,’ the only play for which he ever originated a plot and certainly the poorest of all those that go under his name. It is utterly unread- able to-day and has proved utterly inca- pable of holding the stage. When it was published in 1588 it was certainly no better than it is 303 years later. It is a failure now; 50 it must have been a failure then.” “I see; go on, I beg.” “Well, after he had done so poorly with &n original plot he thought he’d steal one pext time, 50 he borrowed from the Earl of Southampton Wilson’s manuscript trarslation of Montemayor's Spanish ro- mance, ‘Diana.’ He had to read it in a translation, of course, as he knew no lan- guage but his own and that not very well —suffering, as Matthew Arnold so well says, ‘from the defects of a bad educa- tion” Then he found in the property- room of the Shorediich Theater the man- uscript of an old play called ‘Felix and Philomena,’ acted in 1548, and by putting these two together he patched out an adaptation which he called ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona.' That was a fail- ure, too.” “Indeed? How do you know?” “Because Shakespeare was ashamed to own it. He put his name on the title page of ‘Love’s Labor's Lost,’ published in quarto in 159, but u= never acknowledged ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona,’ which was not published until seven years after his death.” “Your argument is ingenious 1If not cor- rect. What next?” “Next, it's the same old story. His next play, “The Comedy of Errors,’ is nothing but a wild farce, not only based upon a most glaring improbability—which is par- donable, but containing contradictions and breaks in the lugic of development which are quite unpardonable. Besides, most of the good thungs in it are taken from Plautus or from an old play acted _—m ADVERTISEMENTS. The boock every- body is talking a -QUINCY- ADAMS- FAWYTR: AND MASON'S CORNER FOLKS ~The Viliags Gossips wenderee whe be wis. What he was, what he came for. asd bow Atallbooksellers Clark Pub. Co. Boston. DIRECTORY OF RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. Catalogues and Prics Lists Mailai on Applieation. 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Now, I agree with Mr. Sidney Lee, if you don't, when he says that ‘such plays as these, although each gave promise of a dramatic capacity out of the common way, cannot be with certainty pronounced to be be- yond the ability of other men.” " “But you. forget that Shakespeare glori- ously redeemed this promise by the com- Juliet “I can't forget it, because I never be- licved it. 1 do not allow that he wrote that play.” “Then who 41d?” asked I, amazed. “That’s where my theory, comes in,” re- ' sponded the Lady cheerfully. “Having| established, as above, an antecedent im- probability that he could write such a play, I now find it reasonable to suppose | that HE was just as capable of recog- | nizing his incapacity as 1 am. Having| recognized it, what was he to do? Depend | upon his meager earnings as a bad actor? | He was too ambitious for that. the theatrical business? Not while there | was en opportunity of making money out of it by in any way utilizing the experi- ence he had gained during his prentice years.” v “Given the well-known conditions of | the stage in 1692, I fall to see any such | opportunity,” said I, decisively. ! 's because you're not a Shake- | announced the Lady authorita-| 1 ‘“He saw the tide rising in the affairs of OTHER men, which, taken at the flood, was to lead HIM on to fortune. He took it, and, supported thereby, rode triumphantly into the harbor of reputa- tion and riches. The other men were drowned.” “Drowned!” I exclaimed with a shud- | der. “Who were they? Who drowned them?"” “‘Shakespeare drowned them, of course. And do.you really mean to say you don’t know who they were?” | “With shame and contrition, T must con- | fess T haven't the remotest idea.” | The Lady of Large Discrimination look- | ed at me with a grieved and compassion- | ating expression like to that which she assumes when I beg her not to put on her hat five minutes before the curtain falls. “Those other men, the ladder upon | which Shakespeare climbed to reputation, were his contemporary dramatists—men | like John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, Robert | Greene, George Peele, Christopher Mar- | lowe, Thomas Nash, George Chapman, Thomas Kyd. Thomas Middieton and John | Fletcher—most of them men of wild Iife; and utterly lacking in that commercial in- | stinet, that shrewd practical common sense which is so striking a characteristic of Shakespeare. These men, or mos: | of them, were constantly in debt. When | harassed by bailiffs they would come to | Shakespeare and sell him a play or the: scenario of a play. This he would work | over himself or more probably get some | other poetry-stricken dramatist to work | over. The result is what we have in the anthology that goes under the title of the Shskespearean drama. That this an- | thology should have been the work of one | man, and such a man as Shakespeare, is! incredible. My theory perfectly explains its depth, its range, its variety and its beauty, for it is the product collected by | Manager Shakespeare, the Frohman of his | age, of all the good dramatic poets of the | Elizabethan era."' . . ‘“Your theory is astonishing,” I said, “but far more rational than Donnelly’s and not nearly so far-fetched as some of the assumptions in that ton-of-a-book which George Brandes has recently dumped on the dust-heap of Shake- spearean commentary. Why don't you throw it out.as a tub for critic whales to charge at?” “I don’t pretend to be a professional writer.”” said the Lady with dignity, “but T'll make you a present of the idea if you care to write it up.” 8o that is how this dialogue came to be recorded. PERSONAL MENTION. F. H. Moon of San Jose is at the Palace. W. J. Rule, a mining man of Sonora, registered at the Lick vesterday. Gus Parish, a prominent Honolulu real estate man, is at the Occidental. J. J. Hebbron, a stockman of Salinas, is spending a few days at the Grand. Bank Commissioner John Markley of Geyserville is spending a few days at the Lick. A L. Grothwell, a Stockton real estate man, is spending a few days at the Occi- dental. Sol Baum, the well-known caterer of Portland, Or., arrived here yesterday on his honeymoon. He is registered at the | Palace. | THE YOSEMITE COMMISSION, Editor Call: The Examiner, in mention- ing the Yosemite Commission, says: “The commission will meet in the val- ley one week from to-day and show that, whereas, the John P. Irish Board turned things over to it nearly $3000 in debt, it | now has over $2500 in its revolving fund, ete.” I have not been a member of the Yo- semite Commission since 1894, and am not familiar with what has been done in the seven years intervening. The board of which T was a member turned nothing over in debt, to the amount of $3000 or any other sum. It rebuilt the Sentinel Hotel and the cottages connécted with it, creating a fine property for the State. The house was old and was a blemish for the valley, yielding no income. When we transformed it it was immediately feased for an annual rental amounting to 10 per cent on the cost of its improve- | ment. As the commission had not all | the funds on hand required for the recon- struction, this income of the broperty | was hypothecated to make up the bai- ance, and -in Jue time wiped it out. The Stoneman House never rented for more than 2 per cent. of its cost, and as it was burned under the management | of the successor to the “John P. Irish Board,” the valley would have been with- gut & ‘hotel had we not rebluilt the Sen- tinel. Being unfamiliar with the work of the present managers of the valley, I assume that it has been good, and that the in- come from the lease o. the Sentinel Hotel has contributed most of the surplis now !nl the revohi'lnghfun;i'. i t is certain that if we had n that house out cf the revolving furd. Lat successors would have been compelléd to ask for an appropriation from the State treasury to provide a hotel after the Stoneman House gave up the ghost. This was prevented by our foresight ang Souna’ financlering. Very truly, JOHN P. IRISH. —_————— “It Is Up to You.” We have made a very low round-trip rate to the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and the comfortable Nickel Plate trains, with Nickel Plate dining cars serving American Club meals at 35c to §1 each, insure you a pleasant trip. Book free showing Pan-Ameri- can views. Buffalo hotel accommodations re- served. JAY W. ADAMS, P. C. P. A, 87 Crocker building, San Francieco, Cal, —_————— Low Rates and Fast Time to the Pan- American Exposition, Round-trip rate to Buffalo, $87. Time of the Union Pacific Raflroad, three and a half days. Publication Office. .. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Abandon |. Tickets on sale at all offices of the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific Rallroad companies. D. W. Hitchcock, general agent, 1 Montgomery street, San 3 l does not like to see his own speeches in print. There's a freak for MUNICIPAL PATERNALISM. HE American scheme of government was, throughout, an emergence from and rejection of paternalism. Its spirit was that of the police powet, solely. The duty of government was conceived to be the maintenance of public order, protection of personal and prop- erty rights, and otherwise freedom of the individual to work out his own destiny. Such scheme in its beginning conformed to the independent spirit of the people, and was believed capable of making that spirit a permanent quality in the American character, and a lasting force in our social organism. It may now be in order to note the progressive change that is taking place, as the result perhaps of the too rapid reception into our population of immigrants reared and inbred in the cus- toms of . government paternalism that prevail in Europe. In the British isles, in France, Aus- tria, Germany, Belgium, Norway, and even in Russia, paternalism goes to the extent of assuming as matters of municipal concern the provision of houses, railways, gas, water, electricity, insur- ance, saving banks, medicine, civil pensions and daily occupation for the people. The public service industries in the list are made to yield a profit to the paternal government. In Glasgow the city furnishes two-roomed houses for a rental of $3 25 per month, temporary night lodgings, baths, etc., and clears 5 per cent per annum on the investment. This method is in practice in other European cities, paying also a profit in excess of the ordinary returns on private capital in similar use in the United States. But it must be noted that all this is evervwhere done under the operation of complete paternalism, and the beneficiaries of the system are people who are willing to have such things done for them. . In regard to tenements and temporary lodging-houses, an investigation in the large cities of this country demonstrates that the people who would be the beneficiaries of such paternalism are, as a rule, the immigrants who come to us from the paternal governments of Europe, and not Americans reared to self-helpfulness and independence. d In its wider outline, then, the proposition to adopt municipal paternalism in this country is a proposition to reverse the direction of our government, change its purpose and spirit, and accommodate it to the inherited quality of imported character that was formed under the anti- podes of the American idea.- But all this is to be done in the presence of universal suffrage and without change in the operation of American partisan . politics. It is to be an attempt to convert to the uses of paternalism a nion-paternal form of government. Formed upon the theory that government has no business to be in business, this govern- ment in a lapse of a century and twelve years under the constitution has developed the strongest people in the world. Systems are to be judged by results. The opportunity for advancement, the ample scope here given to individual energy and genius, make the United’ States increasingly at- tractive to the people of the world. The tidé of -human movement is hitherward, not hence. The municipal paternalism of Europe does not attract immigration of our native population from the United States to enjoy the shelter of tenements and lodging-houses, baths and medicines, light, water and transportation under municipal ownership. Therefore may not the advocates of the non-paternal system plead that it is better for man not to immerse him in the dependence of state communism, and better for government to confine it to governing and exclude it from business? It would seem to be certain that surrender to the physical assertion of paternal govern- ment may in the next century and twelve years impress upon the spirit of our people that same dependence which is characteristic of European populations. i Systems must be judged by the results not of one year, the balance sheets of a decade, nor the effect upon one generation, but by their prolonged practice upon many generations and through many decades. Already in this country the energetic school that promotes municipal paternalism has be- gun the advocacy of what it calls the free supply of public utilities to the people, meaning thereby that water, light and transportation shall be afforded at the expense of the municipality—that is to say of the taxpayer. In the city of Buffalo this proposition has been submitted to the Common Council and was indorsed by nearly half the members. Between that and the supply of free board - and lodging there is a very thin margin that can be easily crossed if the first step be taken. This cult is in the air. Tt is asserting itself among the forces that control public opinion, and is already a power to be reckoned with. The politicians are reckless in adopting it, for it may make votes, office, power and salaries. But the philosophic mind may well consider the portentous change in our polity which it must inevitably produce. BLOOM ON THE BLUEGRASS. OLONEL WATTERSON abandons himself to excitement about The Call. He re- cently discovered that the fate and future of the United States depend upon Cuba. It is known that the South desires Cuban annexation, regardless of our pledge of inde- pendence in our declaration of war against Spain. The colonel, who in certain moods sees visions and dreams dreams, and moves uneasily in his sleep, in giving support to this Southern idea, discovered that what happens to Cuba happens to the United States. If that island is un- happy we paw dust on our backs and bellow. He gives no explanation of his theory, no reason why we cannot go on shooting Governors in Kentucky and burning negroes in Kansas, and con- tinue indulging in other national games, even if the dark, tempestuous Caribbean Sea swallow Cuba, fever, fleas and all. Whether our dependence on Cuba for perpetuity and happiness be uttered by John Quincy Adams or a Kentucky colonel, suggesting that alliance between BIifil and Black George which occurred to the fertile fancy of Randolph in 1823, it is a mere group of words with no foundation in fact or common sense. As well might Colonel Watterson say that a sequence t poker in a Louisville card fight is inextricably linked in fate and destiny with a game of authors ina San Francisco Sunday-school. But when The Call asked him for some reason for the words which he emitted, he makes an anatomical retort and talks about the displacement of our liver! He should not assume that, because he passes gall stones for editorial, all livers are on bad terms with their owners. His hepatic argument is as wanting in application as his insular-conti- nental-relation-and-community-of-fate theory. Because a liver in Kentucky turns hard from hav- ing to deal with that mixture of weeds and liquor which is the popular tipple in those parts, he should not generalize as to all livers. We would willingly share our climate with him.for the help and healing of his liver, and also our views to brighten his lights, but we beg of him to believe that the frying-pan, hot bread and bourbon do not mobilize in the North and march against the liver, overtake and do it up after the fashion that is followed in Dixie. Perhaps his theory is that Cuba is the liver of the United States. In that way only can we account for his belief that when the island is in a morbid, torpid, inactive condition, this republic has a bilious attack. The subscription to the proposed fund of $100,000 to endow a chair of economics at Wash- ington and Lee University in memory of the late President William L. Wilson has reached the sum of $65,000 and the promoters now hope to raise as much as $150,000, so as to be able to erect a school building as well as endow the chair; it looks therefore as if the man of the fiasco tariff might have a lasting monument after all, i it gt Sl The Scotch people are complaining that as they have now more university graduates than they can furnish employment for in any of the professions, Carnegie’s gift of money to provide for an increase in the number of them who are graduated every, year is hardly as big a beneiit as + it seems to outsiders; and they appear to think he has given them a white elephant. In commenting on a recent statement of Professor Starr of Chicago that it is a sign of effeminacy in 2 man to part his hair in the middle, the Philadelphia Record says: “In the West men still wear chin or moose whiskers and until recently they parted their hair on the side”; and now we know what the East thinks of our style and also what we have a right to think of theirs. The Boston builders of the Independence and the New York Yacht Club have settled their dispute, and now we are sure the best boat will meet the challenger for the America’s cup. Sir Thomas Lipton is once more out of luck. Fi It is said the Kaiser’s dislike of the press is not due to any objection to free speech, b;?t he you. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager Market and Third, S. F. BT D e R ERIAN TENOR PRIEST Entrances Hearers at WAGN SANTA CLARA’S JUBILEE. T is always a particular delight to me, and commonly worth the effort of most music lovers, to attend the oc- casional grand festival Itallano to which any eity fortunate enough to own a “Little Italy” is favored. The mu- sic i= usually good, the audience enthu- siastically en rapport with the musicians and the whole affair distinguished by a refreshing naturalness that s a distinct tonic to the nerves of the concert goer. Such an affair was the “grand concert” glven the other evening at Sherman-Clay Hall, in ald of the Sts. Peter and Paul organ fund, where a goodly programme was rendered by eleven mem- bers of the Itallan colony here. Giuseppe Panizza, who was called upon at the last moment to substitute for Signor Ave- dano, was undoubtedly the bright par- ticular star of the evening. He gave the “Largo al Factotum” with utmost ‘gusto, consclentiously concelving it his duty to- ward the audience to act out the part, in spite of such small obstacles as modern tafloring and shoes that sympathetically creaked with every step. Signor Panizza got the encore of the evening, and I did my small best to help him there. Miss Lydia and Miss Angle Spadina gave a very musical rendering of a Mer- cadante duet from “Il Giuramento,” dis- tinguished by its excellent ensemble, and the good veice quality of both singers. Pietro Marino played the Vieuxtemps fifth concerto in satisfactory fashion: Quinto Zani’s good voice and bad rhythm were hear in the “I Pagliacei” prologue; Signor Pio Facci sang with much taste the Braga ‘“Romanza,” and also. with Sig. Zani. a duet from “Forza del Des- tino.” Miss Mignon Schocken got more out of that intrinsically unmusical in- strument, the mandolin, than I have yet heard in my carefully scant experience, and with A. Spadina, R. Laraja and S. Martinez gave a concerted number for two mandolins, lute and plano. Mrs. | Eugene Cadenasso substituted effectively for Lia Polettini, and Signor Martinez accompanied capably. The organ fund of Sts. Peter and Paul must have con- siderably benefited, for the house was crowded. . s . To Father Robert Sesnon, Wagnerian tenor and priest, a large share of the In- terest of the golden jubilee performance of the Banta Clara College is due. Tt will be remembered that the new Passion Play of Clay M. Greene is the chief feature of the college ceremonies, and the musical interlude, mostly sacred solos with choral and orchestral accompaniments, are in the hands of Father Sesnon. The usual things are sung—*Noel,” “The Holy City,” “The Palms”—but they are not sung In at all the usual way. The singer has a power- ful dramatic tenor, used with strong in- telligence, and has an admirable voice quality and method. For many years he studied for the operatic stage, five years in Paris with the teacher of De Reszke, one in Milan with th> elder Lampert! and elsewhere with adequate advantage. “Lo- hengrin,” “Faust” and ‘‘Romeo” are among the parts studied by the priest- singer, and it is easy to imagine his suc- cessful appearance in any one of them. Father Sesnon entered upon his priestly duties a year ago and is now a curate of the Catholic church in San Rafael, amply content with the tranquil life of a coun- try priest. A strange story it is and no light as to the reason of the great change in his life ideals is given by the priest, but it is certain that the stage has lost and the church gained a most effective figure. . s s The Loring Club ‘request” programme of last evening ran as follows: ““The Gondoller,”” Schubert; *‘Chorus of Der- By Blanche Partington. e e e e e} vishes,” from “The Ruins of Athens,” Beet- hoven, a Storch serenade; ‘“Dreamy lake,™ Schumann; “Chorus of Epirits and Hours.” Dudley Buck: “Finland Love Song.” Engels- berg; “Sing, Sing,”” Brewer; ‘‘On the Water,"” Abt; ‘‘Moonrise,”” Pache; “Serenade,” Eisen- hofer; ‘“Rhine Wine Song,”” Mendelssohn, and the “Bedouin Love Song.” Foote. A request programme is always a mora or less {ll-balanced affair, and that of the Loring Club could not therefore hope to escape the Inevitable fate. The prepon- derance of slight numbers will be noted, as testimony to the average taste of the Loring Club audience, but there were also the very effective Beethoven dervish chorus, the Mendelssohn number, and the worthy Schubert and Foote choruses chosen. I wish we might have been spared ‘he flaccid, faclle and effected Dudley Buck chorus. One can tell a Dudley Buck with one’s eyes shut every time. Pretty and lightly melodious on first hearing, a dead- 1y lack of variety s.amps his every choral effort from “The Light of Asla” down, when any attempt at florid writing Is made. He drifts into triplets with the most fatal faclity and uses over and over again a few harmonies once found effective in the Oriental “Light of Asia.™ The chorus was not too well interpreted, its lack of form not conducing to an easy grasp of its difficulties, and Mr. B, Moore gave the solo in rather half-hearted fashion. The Beethoven chorus was sung with a fine swing and encouraging spirit and some of the lighter numbers wers rendered with happy delicacy. A pleas- ant innovation in club habits was the per- formance, without music, of an encors lullaby, and the success of the attempt should encourage the Loring Club to fure ther effort in this direction. Dr. J. F. Smith, Dr. Schalkhammer and H. B Medler were the soloists of the evening and the club was assisted by Miss Ruth W. Loring, accompanist, a string quin- te‘t.‘ and Jacob F‘. I:\ n, flautist. The park programme for this afternoon contains two numbers of a rather special interest, a march by E. A. Brugulere and a “Canzonetta Espagnole” by Henry Bos- sert, both pupils in composition of Mr. Os- car Well. Bruguiere is a San Francisco lad and Bossert a soldier in one of the Southern regiments stationed at the Pre- sidio, and their work iIs said to evidence unusual talent. g CEhL R The Bach “Itallan Concerto,” Beetho- ven *““Moonlight” sonata, violin and piano C minor sonata of Grelg, Schumann ‘“Andante and Variations” for two pianos, Grieg A minor concerto (“Andante and Finale™) and the Rachmaninoff “Prelude™ and a Sinding composition formed the very good offering of the last week’s con- cert of the California Conservatory given at Sherman-Ciay Hall on Thursday even- ing last. I was not able to attend, but hear many good things of the work of the students, all pupils of Otto Bendix, with the exception of Mrs. S. R. Leon, who undertook the violin part of the Grieg sonata, and who is a pupil of Nath- an Landsberger. Miss Lily Hansen, Miss Josie Coonan, Miss Alice B. Toklas, Miss Lydia Rheinstein and Miss Clara Hirsh- feld were the executants of the evening. 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