COVER:
When this searching study of a young woman was painted, about 1455, the art of secular portraiture in northern Europe was scarcely a generation old. Yet within that short span a genius like Rogier van der Weyden had developed a mature style, capable of interpreting the subtle contradictions in his strong-willed and sensuous- looking sitter.
ART & ARCHITECTURE:
ART AND TAXES -- by Jerome S. Rubin.
A GATHERING OF KINGS -- by Sculptures by William King.
THE FLOWERING OF FLEMISH ART -- by John Canaday.
THE FLEMISH EYE -- by A portfolio in gravure.
CRACKS ON THE FACADE -- by Drawings by Alan Dunn.
HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY:
MASADA -- by Yigael Yadin. Photographed for Horizon by Eliot Elisofon.
THE KING'S PRAYER FACTORY -- by H. R. Trevor-Roper. Philip II of Spain and The Excorial.
THE VERY PEARL OF THE REALM -- by Mary Cable.
LITERARY LIFE:
H. G. WELLS: LIGHT IN A THOUSAND DARK PLACES -- by J. B. Priestley.
DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: THE MAKING OF A CYNIC -- by Morris Bishop.
THE AUTOMOBILE AGE:
THE ROLLS ROYCE MYSTIQUE -- by Lucius Beebe.
A Threnody, by Phyllis McGinley.
THE ROAD TO SURVIVAL -- by Geoffrey Bocca.
VARIOUS VOYAGES.
HOW TO PROTEST IN DUTCH.
THE NEW AMBASSADORS.
THE GOLDEN HORN -- The Harbor of Istanbul. by William Marchant, Photographs by Ara Güler.