DEAR SIR,--Would one of your readers kindly inform me how Friar BACON
could have written SHAKSPEARE? I see by _Little Arthur's History of
England_ that the former lived three hundred years before SHAKSPEARE was
born. This seems to be a conclusive proof that Mr. DONNELLY is wrong;
but though I am very fond of history, I do not profess to be a great
historical critic.