Produced by Eric Eldred, Robert Connal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. CAESAR _A SKETCH_ BY JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, M.A. FORMERLY FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD _”Pardon, gentles all The flat unraised spirit that hath dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object.”_ –SHAKESPEARE, Henry V. PREFACE. I have called this