Chapter I: 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 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

INVOCATION 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