Show EVIDENCE OF LITTLE WORTH Illegibility of Shakespeare's Signature Does Not Prove He Did Not Nott t Write the tho Immortal Plays Playa Some years ago when the Shakes Shakes- Peare Teare controversy was at Its height one of ot the contentions of the party who ho declared that the bard not only ony had not written the Immortal plays 3 but ut could not even write rite his own olra n name mame gave as evidence the existing signatures that are of ot undoubted au au- On the same grounds It might be argued that t Richard III HI was unable to write If it one decided the matter from the signature to a treaty of peace peRce with Francis Duke of Brittany which Is reproduced In a London dealers dealer's denter's dent deal ers er's catalogue e Just received It Is a mystery how the cataloguer managed to make Richard Rex out of f the shaky scribble which Is there reproduced It would voul be quite as likely like Uke- ly Jy to stand for tor Will Shakespeare were it not Dot that the smaller word stands stand second and the longer r. r one first |