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...Union (Macmillan, $2) was nearly finished when Pennsylvania's onetime Representative James Montgomery ("The Constitution") Beck died. Upon his death it was finished by Merle Thorpe, editor of The Nation's Bttsiness. Its opening sentence: "It is an interesting coincidence that at the very time when Edward Gibbon was approaching the completion of his monumental work-the 'mighty epitaph' of the greatest republic of ancient times-a small group of men assembled in Philadelphia were creating a new republic in the western world which, in point of potential power. . . ." The remainder of the volume...
...boys. Dos Passos was constantly on the point of leaving Harvard but never quite got around to it. Though he graduated cum laude, he thinks he got little out of college, regards his four years there as largely wasted. Like his father, he is a self-made literate. Gibbon's Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire was his adolescent Bible...
...EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MISCELLANY - edited by Louis Kronenberger-Putnam ($3). Nine selections from the poetry and prose of the Age of Reason, with an introduction pointing out how little the present age has in common with it. Sterne, Blake, Sheridan, Gibbon, Walpole, Swift, Pope, Gay and the Earl of Chester field serve as examples...
Meanwhile the proposed referee, the League of Nations, far away and concerned with other matters, woudn't think of stepping in until the fight is well begun. A future Gibbon may reckon up the causes of the fall of two great empires to a nicety, without, however, finding either nation supposedly barbarous. But contemporary Americans can do little more than keep their coat-tails clear, and ignore, impartially, the lulling sing-song of Japanese apologists and the siren, two-toned voice of Russia...
Shakespeare, as well as Gibbon, Mommsen and other amateur detectives pinned the crime on Brutus; but Mr. Irwin's hero, Manlius Scribo, star reporter on "The Evening Tiber," the first experiment in tabloidia, had his own ideas about the murder. And Manny Scribo was on the spot...