THE MYSTERY

OF

FRANCIS BACON

BY

WILLIAM T. SMEDLEY.

Ad D.B.

“Si bene qui latuit, bene vixit, tu bene vivis :
Ingeniumque tuum grande latendo patet."

-John Owen's Epigrammatum, 1612.

LONDON:

ROBERT BANKS & SON,

RACQUET COURT, FLEET STREET E.C.

1912.