CONTENTS

[PART I]
PAGE
[Brutus][3]
[Brutus and Antony][3]
[At the Mermaid Tavern][17]
[Charlotte Corday][31]
[A Man Child is Born][49]
[Richard Booth to His Son, Junius Booth][52]
[A Man Child is Born][57]
[Squire Bowling Green][58]
[Lincoln Speaking in Congress][63]
[John Wilkes Booth at the Farm][64]
[Junius Brutus Booth][66]
[A Certain Poet on the Debates][71]
[PART II]
[The Decision][81]
[PART III]
[Lincoln Makes a Memorandum][117]
[Winter Garden Theatre][118]
[The Sparrow Hawk in the Rain][120]
[Adelaide and John Wilkes Booth][134]
[Brutus Lives Again in Booth][140]
[Booth’s Philippi][151]
[The Burial of Boston Corbett{vi}][160]
[The New Apocrypha][163]
[Business Reverses][163]
[The Fig Tree][166]
[Tribute Money][169]
[The Great Merger][171]
[At Decapolis][174]
[The Single Standard][178]
[First Entrants][183]
[John in Prison][186]
[Ananias and Sapphira][190]
[The Two Malefactors][193]
[Berenice][202]
[Nebuchadnezzar or Eating Grass][212]
[Hip Lung on Yuan Chang][220]
[Ulysses][225]
[The Party][232]
[Celsus at Hadrian’s Villa][238]
[Invoation to the Gods][248]
[Pentheus in These States][253]
[Comparative Criminals][262]
[The Great Race Passes][270]
[Demos the Despot][272]
[A Republic][275]
[The Inn][277]
[Monody on the Death of William Marion Reedy][285]
[God and My Country][290]
[The Dunes of Indiana][295]
[Nature][299]

THE OPEN SEA

PART ONE
THE OPEN SEA

BRUTUS
BRUTUS AND ANTONY
(Lucilius Talks at a Feast Given to Aristocrates in
Rome.
)
B. C. 20