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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2271, 17 August 1908, Page 4

Reminiscences on an almost- forgotten literary controversy were awakened last week by a petty officer belonging to one of tlie American battleships. He was standing at the foot of 'Wellesley street talking in a loud tone a la lecturer to a group of Aucklanders. “Monuments,” ho said, with fine scorn, “and graves and things. "Why, sir, I tell you .the best men lie unreme.mbered. Look at Francis' Bacon—-there was your great man. He lies buried in a nameless grave, and the English people put up monuments to Shakespeare. Why, see here, that fellow Shakespeare was a myth. He was Francis Bacon’s noin-de-plume. There, was never a Shakespeare only in imagination. It’s tho same with Mark Twain,” continued the orator. .“That ain’t his name. No, sir, ’deed and it is not. Yet if he gets buried under his proper cognomen, his grave is going to lie neglected. It’s the monument to Mart Twain the fictitious that is going to attract the worshippers.” Woods’ Great Peppermint Curo for Cough and CVds never fails. Is 6d and 2s 6d.

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