The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones.

Which is not so true in these days of newspapers and magazines. And
so on. He says that Brutus and his friends are honourable men about
nine times in his short speech. Now, was Mark Antony an honourable
man?

And then the flap-doodle about dead Caesar's wounds, and their
poor dumb mouths, and the people kissing them, and dipping their
handkerchiefs in his sacred blood. All worthy of our Purves trying
to pump tears out of a jury.

But it fetched the crowd; it always did, it always has done, it always
does, and it always will do. And the hint of Caesar's will, and the
open abuse of Brutus and Co. when he saw that he was safe, and the
cheap anti-climax of the reading of the will. Nothing in this line
can be too cheap for the crowd, as witness the melodramas of our own
civilized and enlightened times.

Antony was a noble Purves.

And the mob rushed off to burn houses, as it has always done, and will
always do when it gets a chance--it tried to burn mine more than once.

The quarrel scene between Brutus and Cassius is one of the best scenes
in Shakespeare. It is great from the sublime to the ridiculous--you
must read it for yourself. It seems that Brutus objected to
Cassius's, or one of his off-side friends' methods of raising the