29 SEPTEMBER 1973, page 23

An Antique Land

Jan Morris Palaces Of The Raj Mark Bence-Jones (Allen and Unwin E5) If the Empire still survived, and India offered an arena for our national energies, who would now be our......

Soul Art

Duncan Fallowell The Symbolists, Philippe Jullian (Phaidon at £7.95). • " The need for the quintessential is becoming widespread." This was written in the mid1890s by a Swiss......