This whole book is pretty much unnecessary, and could have been covered in one chapter at the end of The Kindly Ones. Basically for over 100 pages various characters converge for Dream's funeral. They loiter, mope, and muse, and that's it. Then we get three unrelated short stories with cameo appearances by either the old or new versions of Dream. The one dealing with Robert Gadling is pretty funny and is easily the best thing in the book. The one about a Chinese civil servant is dull and goes nowhere. The one about Shakespeare is interesting and appropriately wistful, although I think it leans a little too heavily on the correlation between The Tempest, Shakespeare's death, Dream's death and the end of The Sandman as a story; a kind of borrowed glory.
This volume also has some of the best art in the whole series.