"The great interest that Bacon took in portraits of character is proved by the fact that he attempted to draw them himself. With a few felicitous touches be sketched the characters of Julius and Augustus Caesar, and his view of both was similar to that of Shakespeare. In Julius Caesar he saw combined all that the Roman genius had to bestow in the shape of greatness, nobility, culture, and fascination, and regarded his character as the most formidable that the Roman world could encounter. And giving what always serves as the proof of the calculation in the analysis of a character, Bacon so...