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Science Into Art

Mark Bevir THE FIRST MODERNS by William R. Everdell University of Chicago, £23.95, pp. 473 P aris, 29 May 1913, the opening night of Stravinslcy's The Rite of Spring, three min-......

The Fragments That Remain

Anthony Rouse THE LAST PINK BITS by Harry Ritchie Hodder, £17.99, pp. 231 E dward Gibbon famously had the idea of writing his Decline and Fall in Rome 'while the barefoot friars......