The open sea. Edgar Lee Masters

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       PART ONE THE OPEN SEA

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

       THE OPEN SEA

       BRUTUS

       AT THE MERMAID TAVERN (April 10th, 1613)

       CHARLOTTE CORDAY (The Revolutionary Tribunal; July 17th, 1793)

       A MAN CHILD IS BORN (February 12th, 1809. Log Hut near Hodgenville, Ky.) (A neighbor woman is talking)

       RICHARD BOOTH TO HIS SON JUNIUS BRUTUS (London, December 13th, 1813.)

       A MAN CHILD IS BORN (July 14th, 1839. The Farm.) (Mrs. Booth is speaking.)

       SQUIRE BOWLING GREEN (Rutledge’s Tavern, New Salem, July 14th, 1839.)

       LINCOLN SPEAKING IN CONGRESS (January 12th, 1848.)

       JOHN WILKES BOOTH AT THE FARM (January 12th, 1848.)

       JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH (On a steamboat bound for Cincinnati from New Orleans, November 30th, 1852 .)

       A CERTAIN POET ON THE DEBATES (At Alton, Illinois, October 15th, 1858.) (Arguing with a group at the hotel.)

       PART II

       THE DECISION (April 14th, 1861 .)

       PART III

       LINCOLN MAKES A MEMORANDUM

       WINTER GARDEN THEATRE

       THE SPARROW HAWK IN THE RAIN

       ADELAIDE AND JOHN WILKES BOOTH (At the National Hall, Washington, April 9, 1865.)

       BRUTUS LIVES AGAIN IN BOOTH (Ford’s Theatre, Good Friday, April 14th, 1865.)

       BOOTH’S PHILIPPI (Garrett’s Tobacco House, Bowling Green, Virginia, April 26th, 1865. Booth and Harrold.)

       THE BURIAL OF BOSTON CORBETT

       THE NEW APOCRYPHA

       BUSINESS REVERSES

       THE FIG TREE (Matthew, Chapter XXI.)

       TRIBUTE MONEY (Matthew, Chapter XXII: 24-27.)

       THE GREAT MERGER (Exodus, Chapter XX.)

       AT DECAPOLIS (Mark, Chapter V.)

       THE SINGLE STANDARD (St. John, Chapter VIII.)

       FIRST ENTRANTS (St. Matthew, Chapter XXII: 31.)

       JOHN IN PRISON (St. Luke, Chapter XVI. St. Matthew, Chapter XI.)

       ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA

       THE TWO MALEFACTORS

       BERENICE

       NEBUCHADNEZZAR: OR EATING GRASS

       HIP LUNG ON YUAN CHANG

       ULYSSES

       THE PARTY

       CELSUS AT HADRIAN’S VILLA

       INVOCATION TO THE GODS

       PENTHEUS IN THESE STATES

       COMPARATIVE CRIMINALS

       THE GREAT RACE PASSES

       DEMOS THE DESPOT

       A REPUBLIC

       THE INN

       MONODY ON THE