The Bacon- Shakespeare Controversy 3 



junctional peculiarities, the clause-saving by gerundial and like 

 constructions, though promising results yet more marked, have 

 been omitted from this investigation. 



As was done by Miss Pound, in her work upon the Romaunt 

 of the Rose, the material here examined was first repunctuated 

 according to the principles of Mr. Skeat. In the Shakespeare 

 side of the inquiry, only organic and completed sentences 

 were considered ; all broken and suspended diction, as palpably 

 offering no product of the author's sentence-sense, was con- 

 sistently omitted. The Grlobe text was used throughout. 



The results which follow are given, to save space, in sum- 

 maries only ; except, for illustration, a few hundreds of speci- 

 men results from each author. Of these will be given, first, the 

 figures from one of the earlier, and one of the latest of 

 Shakespeare's plays; and, following these, the first four hundred 

 periods of Bacon's Essays, and of The New Atlantis. 



REFERENCES. 



1. L. A. Sherman, Some Observations upon the Sentence- 

 Length in English Prose, University Studies, University of 

 Nebraska, Vol. 1, No. 2; and On Certain Facts and Principles 

 in the Development of Form in Literature, University Studies 

 Vol. 1, No. 4; also his Analytics of Literature, published by 

 Ginn & Company. 



2. G. AV. Gerwig, On the Decrease of Predication and of 

 Sentence Weight in English Prose, University Studies, Vol. 

 2, No. 1. 



3. Hugh C. Laughlin, The Co-ordinate Stage in Language 

 Development, and On the Principle of Predicate Suppression; 

 papers on file in the University of Nebraska. 



4. Louise Pound, Romaunt of the Rose; Additional Evi- '• 

 dence that it is Chaucer's, Modern Language Notes, Vol. 

 2, No. 4. 



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