Barzun's Dawn to Decadance was his last book before he died; and it was a synthesis of his learning. It's a wonderful history book describing Western Civilization over the last 500 years; and contains a lot of recommendations of other books to read. I read the book a few years ago, and recorded all the books, and I am finally getting to put it down on the internet. This also contains a few quotes I really liked.
| Page | Author | Title | Notes |
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| 5 | Lutien Febvie & James Martin | The Coming of the Book | |
| 13 | Anthony Froude | Life & Letters of Erasmus | |
| 16 | Martin Luther | Table Talk | |
| 30 | Dorothy Sayers | The Mind of the Maker | |
| 56 | Paul Oskar Kristeller | Renaissance Thought | |
| 67 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Notebooks | |
| 75 |
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Artist and Craftman | |
| B76 | Cellini | Autobiography | |
| B77 | Ralph Mayer | Artist's Handbook | |
| 80 | Montaigne | Diary of 1580-81 | |
| 81 | Beaumarchais | The Marriage of Figaro | |
| 86 | Balzac | Catherine de Médicis | |
| 93 | Rupert Croft-Cooke | Through Spain with Don Quixote | |
| 94 | José Castillejo | War of Ideas in Spain | |
| 99 | Samuel Eliot Marison | Christopher Columbus, Mariner | |
| 103 | Oliver Wamer | English Maritime Writing from Hakluyt to Cook | |
| 103 | Dorothy Sayers | The Adverture of Uncle Meleager's Will | |
| 105 | Valazquez | Painting: "The Surrender at Brenda" | |
| 106 | José Ortega y Gasset | Invertebrate Spain | |
| 108 | Hugh A MacDougal | Racial Myth in English History | |
| 111 | Theodore Caplow | Peace Games | |
| 111 | Anon.; tr. WS Merwin | La Vida de Lazavillo | |
| 114 | James Pennethorne Huges | Is thy name Wart? | |
| 122 | Josephine Tey | The Daughter of Our Time | |
| 122 | Charles Ross | Richard III | |
| 133 | Albert Jay Nock | A Journey into Rabelais' France | |
| 137 | Montaigne | Travels | |
| 140 | Jacob Feis | Shakespeare and Montaigne | |
| 152 | WP Ker | Epic & Romance | |
| 154 | Anon.; tr. Leonard Bacon | Os Lusiadas | |
| 161 | Edmund H Fellows | The English Madrigal School | |
| 162 | Ed. WH Auden & NH Pearson | The English Poets, Vol II |
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| 164 | Jacques Barzun | An Essay on French Verse for Readers of English Poetry | |
| 167 | JE Spingarn | Literary Criticism in the Renaissance | |
| 172 | Harold Nicolson | Diplomacy | |
| 172 | JF Revel | Culture and Cuisine | |
| 188 | Milton | Comus | |
| 192 | Whitehead | Science and Modern World | |
| 192 | HT Pledge | Science since 1500 | |
| 196 | F Sherwood Taylor | The Alchemsits | |
| 196 | New ideas do not battle so knowledge | much with ignorance as with solid | |
| 205 | Dava Sobel | Longitude | |
| 222 | Bergen Evans | The Psychiatry of Robert Burton | |
| 227 | Ed. Manuel Komroff | The Contemporaries of Marco Polo | |
| 229 | JH Mundy & Peter Riesenberg | The Medieval Town | |
| 230 | Jean Gimpel | The Medieval Machine | |
| 231 | David S. Landes | A Revolution in Time | |
| 231 | GG Coulton | The Fate of Medieval Art | |
| 231 | Helen Waddell | Medieval Latin Lyrics | |
| 232 | Norman Cantor | Medieval Lives | |
| 232 | tr. Richard Aldington | The Fifteen Joys of Marriage | |
| 233 | tr. William R Trask | Medieval Lyrics of Europe | |
| 314 | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | |
| 314 | Christopher Duffy | The fortress in the Age of Vauban and Fredrick the Great | Technical |
| 325 | Swift | On the Death of Dr. Swift | |
| 335 | Charles Scribner III | Rubens | Leaf through the art |
| 336 | Charles Scribner III | Bernini | Leaf through the art |
| 342 | Racine, tr. Robert Lowell | Phaedra | |
| 351 | Emily James Putnam | The Lady | |
| 351 | Harold Nicolson | Good Behavior | |
| 354 | Ludwig Lewisohn | German Style | |
| 354 | ed. Ward Allen | Translating For King James | |
| 356 | Joseph Wood Krutch | Comedy and Conscience After the Restoration | ch 1-4 |
| 367 | Berkeyely George | Commonplace Book | |
| 377 | Ed. I Bernard Cohen | The Album of Science: Leonardo to Lavoisier | |
| 378 | Voltaire, tr. Anthony Hecht | The Lisbon Earthquake | |
| 379 | Oscar A Haac | Marivax | |
| 410 | Walpole in Everyman Library Edition | Selected Letters of Horace | |
| 410 | Harrison Ross Steeves | Before Jane Austen | |
| 411 | Joseph Wood Krutch | Samuel Johnson | |
| 413 | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland | |
| B420 | Ed. Joan Peyser | The Orchestra | |
| 426 | Peter Paret | Understanding War | |
| 430 | Charles Downer Hazen | The French Revolution | |
| 430 | Albert Goodwin | The French Revolution | |
| 430 | Carlyle | The French Revolution | |
| 430 | Simon Schama | Citizens | |
| 437 | John F Lesch | Science and Medicine in France 1790-1855 | |
| 449 | Restif de la Bretonne | Paris Nights | |
| 449 | Vidocq | The Memoirs | |
| 469 | Jacques Barzun | Classic, Romantic & Modern | |
| B483 | Edgar Johnson | Walter Scott | |
| B486 | Jacques Barzun | The Letters of Byron | |
| 496 | Brian Primmer | The Berlioz Style | |
| 497 | Normon Longmate | King Cholera | |
| 498 | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Chapter 25; Chapter 13: English voters after the reform bill |
| 498 | Ellen Moers | The Dandy From Brummel to Beerbohn | |
| 500 | Byron | The Waltz | |
| 511 | ed. WC Hazlitt | Winterslow by Hazlitt | |
| 512 | John Kinnard | William Hazlitt | |
| 521 | Henry A Kissinger | A World Restored: Europe After Napoleon | |
| 534 | Hesketh Pearson | The Smith of Smiths | |
| 534 | WH Auden | Selected Writings of Sydney Smith | |
| 543 | LTC Rolt | The Railroad Revolution | |
| 543 | Carroll LV Meeks | The Railroad Station | |
| 548 | Raymond Postgate | 1848: The Story of a Year | |
| 558 | Flaubert, tr. Perdita Burlinggame | L'Education Sentimentale | |
| 559 | Roger L Williams | The Horror of Life | |
| 564 | Meridith | The Egoist | |
| 564 | Thomas Love Peacock | Nightmare Abbey | |
| 565 | Wilson Disher | Melodrama | |
| 566 | Sarah Faunce | Courbet | |
| 571 | Norman Macbeth | Darwin Retired | |
| 572 | Edmund Gosso | Father and Son | |
| 574 | GM Young | Victorian England: Portrait of an Age | |
| 577 | Steven Marcus | The Other Victorians | |
| 579 | Jacques Barzun | Race: A study in superstition | |
| 581 | Walter Bagehot | The English Constitution | |
| 583 | Ed. Jane Robinson | Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology | |
| 583 | Linda Grant | Seafaring Women | |
| 596 | Finley Peter Dunne | Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War | |
| 598 |
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The bicycle | |
| 602 | Floyd Clymer | Scrapbook of Early Advertising | Leaf through Art |
| 603: " | If I keep a cow, that cow m | ilks me" -- Emerson | |
| 603 | Steffan Linder | The Harried Leisure Class | |
| 609 | Henri Poincaré | Science and Hypothesis | |
| 631 | Michael Goodwin | Nineteenth Century Opionion | |
| 632 |
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Album of Science: The 19th Century | Leaf through |
| 651 | Stefan Zweig | The World of Yesterday | |
| 662 | Paul E Stepansky | In Freud's Shadow | |
| 671 | George Allen Morgan | What Nietzsche Means | |
| 672 | Tolstoy | What is Art? | |
| 678 | Constant Lambert | Music Ho! | |
| 686 | Anne Fremantle | This Little Band of Prophets | |
| 689 | G Lowes Dickinson | A Modern Symposium | |
| 689 | Bernard Shaw | Arms and the Man | |
| 695 | Oscar Wilde | Vera, or the Nihilists | |
| 697 | Peter Shankland | Death of an Editor | |
| 697 | Leonid Andreyev | The Seven that were Hanged | |
| 698 | John Lukacs | Buda-Pest 1900 | |
| 700 | Ronald N Stormberg | Redeption By Way: The Intellectuals and 1914 | |
| 701 | Caroline Playne | Society at War | |
| 702 | Margnus Hirschfeld | The Sexual History of the World War | "Translated from the German and Intended for Circulation Among Mature Educated Persons Only" |
| 707 | Shaw | Common Sense About the War | |
| 708 | Henry Lafarge | L'Europe Blessée | In English despite its title |
| B722 | Calvin Tomkins | The World of Marcel Duchamp | |
| 724 | Ortega y Gasset | The Dehumanization of Art | |
| 725 | Henry Russell Hitchcock & Phillip Johnson | The International Style | |
| 727 | Raymond Loewy | Industrial Design | |
| 729 | Harry Partch | Genesis of Music | |
| 735 | Percy Marks | The Jazz Age | |
| Drawin | gs by John Held Jr | ||
| 740 | ed. J Barzun & WH Taylor | Catalogue of Crime | |
| 745 | William Wiser | The Crazy Years | |
| 746 | DC Somerrell | Between the Wars | |
| 749 | René de Chambrun | Laval, Patriot or Traitor | |
| 754 | ed. J Barzun | The Later Ego (8,9) | |
| 754 | James Agate | Ego, autobiography | |
| 778 | Louis Lundborg | The Art of Being an Executive | |
| 779 | Philip K Howard | The Death of Common Sense | |
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| 788 | Max Eastman | Journalism Versus Art | |
| 793 | Lawrence Cremin | The Transformation of the School | |
| The St | at Life was an abstact poli | ce force working from within. | |
| 798 | Ortega y Gasset | The Modern Theme | |
| 798 | John T Graham | Ortega y Gasset: A Pragmatic Philosophy of Life | |
| B799 | Humphrey Jennings | Pandemonium |