Volume 24, Number 16 · October 13, 1977

Imposing Gibbon

By Ernst Badian
Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
edited by G.W. Bowersock, edited by John Clive, edited by Stephen R. Graubard

Harvard University Press, 257 pp., $11.00

This year marks the centenary of the publication of Johannes Brahms's First Symphony. An international colloquium, largely funded by American taxpayers, will be held at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, and twenty scholars from various countries will discuss Brahms's life, work, and influence.



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