2 OCTOBER 1959, page 30

Graces And Disgraces

The Fume of Poppies. By Jonathan Kozol. (Michael Joseph, 13s. 6d.) IN his new novel Yukio Mishima interprets the events leading to the burning of a Kyoto temple by a neurotic......

Feudal Masterpieces

From Baroque to Rococo. By Nicholas Powell. (Faber, 50s.) Italian Villas and Palaces. By Georgina Masson. (Thames and Hudson, £4 4s.) UNTIL a year ago the English reader had a......