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...COUNT BELISARIUS-Robert Graves- Random House...
Latest Graves novel of Rome's slow fall, Count Belisarius, does not quite measure up to these, largely because Belisarius is noble, dull, honest and courageous, where bumbling old Claudius was gnarled with humanness. Purporting to be the work of Eugenius, educated eunuch and slave of Belisarius' wife, it is laid in Justinian's reign, tells the story of Justinian's one capable general. Belisarius defeats the Persians, takes Carthage, conquers Italy, marries a shrewd, level-headed prostitute, Antonina, is blinded by Justinian, who fears him as a rival...
...good friend of Captain Liddell Hart and of the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence, Robert Graves crams his book with superb accounts of Belisarius' military strategy, makes catapults and mounted archers seem as modern as machine guns and tanks. Count Belisarius sags from its weight of historical detail, as Graves's earlier novels...
...Grant is also well known through the books he has written. These include "The Search of Belisarius", "Socialism and Christianity", and "Fair Play for the Worker...
...Search of Belisarius," by P. S. Grant 83. Translation of "The Aeneid of Virgil, books VII to XII, by H. H. Balard '04. "Selections from Chaucer," edited by E. A. Greenlaw p.'03; "Fennel and Rue," by W. D. Howells h.'76; "The Old Room," by C. A. Ewald '88; "Essays in Municipal Administration," by J. A. Fairlle '95; "The American Constitution," by F. J. Stimson '76; "Spanish Correspondence," by E. S. Harrison S.'04; "The Case of Summerfield," by W. H. Rhodes L.'46; "Types of Tragic Drama," by C. E. Vaughan '56; "Which College...