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