AN INQUIRY TOUCHING PLAYERS, PLAYHOUSES, AND PLAY-WRITERS IN THE DAYS OF ELIZABETH. BY WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, ESQ TO WHICH IS APPENDED AN ABSTRACT OF A MS. RESPECTING TOBIE MATTHEW. LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE. M.DCCC.LVII. CONTENTS. XIV.-An Epitome of what has gone before APPENDIX.-A Brief Description of a curious MS., entitled 3 BACON AND SHAKESPEARE. THE AUTHOR has been advised to PREFACE the reissue of his Book with the following Letters: SIR, Mr. Smith to Mr. Hawthorne. My attention has been called to the following statement in the Literary Gazette of the 9th of May. "Miss Bacon's book, a volume of imposing dimensions, is introduced by a preface from Mr. Nathaniel Hawthorne, who thus alludes to Mr. Smith's appropriation of his countrywoman's labours: An English writer (in a letter to the Earl of Ellesmere, published within a few months back) has thought it not inconsistent with the fair play upon which his country prides itself, to take to himself this lady's theory, and favour the public with it as his own original conception, without allusion to the author's prior claim.'" |