Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo

by Georges Balandier. Pantheon, $6.95.

Modern scholarship makes a fine thing of the records (sixteentheighteenth century) of Portuguese missionaries, traders, and slavers.
Illustrations for this issue are from The Last Works of Henri Matisse (Museum of Modern Art, 1961). Credits: page 122, Pierre Matisse; page 124, Mme. George duThuit; page 126, Nelson Rockefeller; page 129, Galerie Beyler, Basel; page 130, the Tate Gallery.