Excerpt from Shakespeare Studies in Baconian Light One more claim I make, namely, that the Baconian theory should not be confounded with any of the specula tions that are often associated with it - cipher speculations especially. While I may say that my own attitude towards them is chiefly sceptical, yet I decline to embarrass the main argument by these collateral and somewhat irritating discussions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.