26 DECEMBER 1914, Page 25

The latest development of the amazing theory that Shake- speare

did not write his own plays is to be found in Shakspere and Sir Walter Ralegh, by the late Henry Pemberton, jun. (J. B. Lippincott Co.), which argues that Ralegh is "the only figure who could possibly have composed the great dramas and poems." The book is a literary curiosity as an example of misplaced ingenuity.