ENGRAVINGS.
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| MAP, SCENE OF CLEOPATRA’S HISTORY | [Frontispiece.] |
| MAP, THE RAINLESS REGION | [21] |
| MAP, THE DELTA OF THE NILE | [29] |
| THE BIRTH-DAY PRESENT | [50] |
| ANTONY CROSSING THE DESERT | [107] |
| CLEOPATRA ENTERING THE PALACE OF CÆSAR | [135] |
| VIEW OF ALEXANDRIA | [162] |
| CLEOPATRA’S SISTER IN THE TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION | [190] |
| THE ENTERTAINMENTS AT TARSUS | [242] |
| THE RAISING OF ANTONY TO THE UPPER WINDOW OF THE TOMB | [303] |
CLEOPATRA.
Chapter I.
The Valley of the Nile.
The story of Cleopatra is a story of crime. It is a narrative of the course and the consequences of unlawful love. In her strange and romantic history we see this passion portrayed with the most complete and graphic fidelity in all its influences and effects; its uncontrollable impulses, its intoxicating joys, its reckless and mad career, and the dreadful remorse and ultimate despair and ruin in which it always and inevitably ends.