Contents: Sources of Information; Stock from which Bacon Came; Francis Bacon, 1560-1572; At Cambridge; Early Compositions; Bacon’s Temporis Partus Maximus ; Bacon’s First Allegorical Romance; Bacon in France, 1576-1579; Bacon’s Suit on His Return to England, 1580; Rare and Unaccustomed Suit ; Bacon’s Second Visit to the Continent and After; Is it probable that Bacon left Manuscripts Hidden Away?; How the Elizabethan Literature was Produced; Clue to the Mystery of Bacon’s Life; Burghley and Bacon; 1623 Folio Edition of Shakespeare’s Plays; Authorized Version of the Bible, 1611; How Bacon Marked Books with the Publication of Which He was Connected; Bacon and Emblemata; Shakespeare’s Sonnets; Bacon’s Library; Two German Opinions on Shakespeare and Bacon; Testimony of Bacon’s Contemporaries; Missing Fourth Part of The Great Instauration ; The Philosophy of Bacon.