Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But while the impact and influence of Decline and Fall is almost impossible to overstate, we are not here to prove Gibbon wrote a ...

I WAS born” — so Gibbon begins his Autobiography — “I was born at Putney in the county of Surrey, the 27th of April O.S., in the year 1737.” The date of his birth had a good deal to do with the tenor ...

COUNT BELISARIUS—Robert Graves— Random House ($3). Sitting in the ruins of the Capitol at twilight, a 27-year-old Englishman named Edward Gibbon once dreamed of writing a massive work on the decline ...

EDWARD GIBBON—D. M. Low—Random House ($3.50). For most readers, interest in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is now eclipsed by the much-predicted decline & fall of the civilization now ...

THE Muse of History is a rather worldly personage, who frequently reserves her favors for devotees in easy circumstances. The pushing aspirants who seize the prizes of poetry, fiction, music, the ...