The author says: “I wish distinctly to deny that what I am about to present proves Bacon’s authorship of the plays. What I do claim, and I think in reason, is that they seem to constitute grounds for a very strong suspicion that he was in some manner concerned in their production or associated with them.” “The book consists of eight more or less connected papers, the most important of which are The Bacon cryptograms in Love’s labour’s lost, which deals with the Latin of Act. V., Scene I., The Bacon cryptograms in the Shakespeare quartos, and The testimony of the first folio.” (Dial.)
“Sundry old fooleries in the ‘cipher’ line, with a few new ones of the same sort set forth in better typography than such stuff deserves.”
+ + Critic. 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.
“The Shakespearians may breathe a sigh of relief, and resume their immemorial repose. Mr. Platt, at any rate, cannot break their sleep.” Charles H. A. Wager.
– – Dial. 40: 90. D. 1, ’06. 1230w.
Plummer, Alfred. English church history from the death of King Henry VII to the death of Archbishop Parker. *$1. Scribner.
“These lectures are not intended for experts, and, in the first instance, were not intended for publication. They were written for popular audiences in connection with the Exeter Diocesan church reading society; and their object was, and is, to stimulate interest in the fortunes of the Church of England at a very critical period of its history.” “The main interest of Dr. Plummer’s lecture lies, naturally, in their account of the fortunes of the Church of England in the period under review, and it is as a succinct epitome of that story that the little sketch is chiefly valuable, though the author’s judgment of political events and the men of action in them is often very happily expressed.” (Yale R.)
“We regret that he is so swayed by ecclesiastical prepossessions as to descend to the arts of special pleader.” Eri B. Hulbert.