Title: Growth Industry
Product review: Indy Publishing in its fourth Mommsen reissue of late tackles volume two where the some of the real substance of Mommsen's "History of Rome" resides. This is not meant as slight against the valuable volume five parts one and two which are essential but deal with the provences during the post Ceasar era. Here one is dealing with a masterwork of history and literature in volumes 2 and 3 that has been willfully chopped up by an avaricious publisher. This was the only history to ever win the Nobel prize for literature in original form. I wonder what you get in this condensation. Indy seems to like about two hundred and fifty pages. John Collins abridgement of Volume two and three with a new translation runs to 600 pages and sells for $16.00 used. If you buy this book, may I suggest something by P. T. Barnum as well, as he said, "There is a sucker born every minute."
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