CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| From the Mycenae Papers | [1] |
| With the Carthaginian Fleet, 216 b.c. | [21] |
| Lesbia Illa | [29] |
| Cleopatra at Rome | [39] |
| Ovid’s Banishment | [50] |
| The Caprae Regatta, a.d. 27 | [60] |
| Messalina | [68] |
| Nero Interviewed, Rome, a.d. 64 | [81] |
| Marcus Aurelius at Lanuvium | [91] |
| The Camelot Jousts | [103] |
| King Lear’s Daughter | [113] |
| Lady Macbeth’s Trouble | [121] |
| At the Court of King Claudius | [130] |
| Romeo and Rosaline | [138] |
| A First Night | [147] |
| The Poet, the Player, and the Literary Agent | [156] |
| Bath, 1663 | [168] |
| Peter the Great | [176] |
| “Hamlet” and Dr. Dodd | [188] |
| Herr Müller | [197] |
| Heine in Paris | [207] |
| Smith Major | [217] |
| From Saturday to Monday | [224] |
| A Russian Sailor | [236] |
DEAD LETTERS
FROM THE MYCENAE PAPERS
Clytaemnestra to Aegisthus
Mycenae.
Honoured Sir,
I am sorry I was out when you came yesterday. I never thought that you seriously meant to come. I shall be very busy all next week, as Helen and Menelaus are arriving and I must get everything ready. Orestes was quite delighted with the cup and ball. You spoil him.
Yours sincerely,
Clytaemnestra.