Identifier: autographcollect00scot (find matches)
Title: Autograph collecting: a practical manual for amateurs and historical students. Containing ample information on the selection and arrangement of autographs, the detection of forged specimens, &c., &c. To which are added numerous facsimiles for study and reference, and an extensive valuation table of autographs worth collecting.
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Scott, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
Subjects: Autographs Autographs Autographs Autographs
Publisher: London : L.U. Gill
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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the fathers ears, were retailedto young Ireland with increased vehemence, and, what withsupplications, commands, and taunts, he had no rest until hecontinued his attempts to produce autographs of the poet. Henext concocted some letters, and then Shakespeares Confessionof Faith, which, according to Dr. Parr, eclipsed in sublimity LITERARY HOAXES, ETC. 117 all the finest passages of our Prayer Book. Bythe aid of some fluid obtained from a book-binder—as young Ireland asserted, probablyto cast a mysterious interest around thestory of his proceedings—he imitated theappearance of writing two centuries old,and produced rhymes, receipts, letters,and at last the play of Vortigern,the forged manuscript of which wassold in Edinburgh, April, 1888.This, though certainly a workof extraordinary ability for ayouth of seventeen, is, ofcourse, altogether below thegenius of Shakespeare, al-though such enthusiastsas Samuel Ireland,Drs. Parr and Whar-ton, and Old Bos-well, were able _W ^* Drury Lane-
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wereto discover sublimities in it.Sheridan,however,who pro-ducedtheplaya t could notbe inducedby the rhap-sodies of Dr.Parr to go fur-ther than to sayV- if Shakespearewrote these admiredpars-graphs he musthave been drunk at thetime! The above is a speci-■ men of the writing of Vor-tigern, the slightest compari-son of which with the samplesof the old Court hand given inthe preceding Chapter, will sufficeto show that it is unlike Elizabethanwriting. It is totally different toShakespeares, and, in fact, resemblesno style of writing whatever, having been 118 AUTOGKAPH COLLECTING. dashed off in a hap-hazard way which was nearly unin-telligible to everyone except to Ireland himself. Thetranslation is as follows: Time was, alas ! I needed not this spur;But heres a secret and a goading thornThat wounds my troubled nerves. Voetigern—Act 5, Scene 2.

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