6 SEPTEMBER 1968, page 20

New Novels

East is West MAURICE CAPITANCHIK A Stronger Climate R. Prawer Jhabvala, (John Murray 25s) Forbidden Colours Yukio Mishima translated by Alfred H. Marks (Seeker and Warburg 35s)......

Buying Beautiful

FRANCES DONALDSON The Ladies Bountiful of Mr Rogers's title are the benefactresses of creative artists—writers, painters, musicians—most of whom lived and worked in the first......

The Decline And Fall Of Nazi Germany And Imperial Japan

Hans Dollinger (Odhams 63s) Useful scheme BRIAN INGLIS A pictorial history of the last year of the war —and an unusually interesting one, in that it is mainly, though not......

Grotesque Occasions

ASHLEY BROWN Flannery O'Connor became known to a few readers in the United States as early as 1949, when two sections of her first novel, Wise Blood, appeared in Partisan......