INTRODUCTION. This work is tho result of some few months' close study. It is certain airybody giving himself up to complete devotion to this work, might easily double or treble the number of parallels I adduce. The chief, difficulty is the recognition of parallelism, for a student must have Shakespcaro or Bacon by heart first, since we cannot read the two authors at the same time, and an ordinary remembrance of the chief passages in the plays is not sufficient for discovery. The works have to be read and re-read thousands of times, and recognition of the same thoughts disguised under different language requires practice and a quick eye to detect them. It is certain there is hardly a line, certainly not a simile, illustration, or metaphor, which may not be found repeated by both writors. This may seem a bold assumption, but let any ono doubting it, read Mr Donnelly's parallels, then the vast collection adduced by Mrs Pott, and the Journal of the Bacon Society, together with mine,...

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