Sights and Sounds

Bare Feet in the Palace, by Agnes Newton Keith. Illustrated by the author. 370 pp. Boston: Atlantic Little, Brown. $5.00

Gentlemen journalists, as a rule, tend to take generalized views of whatever they are reporting on. They descend omnisciently and importantly from airplanes, interview a dozen VIP’s, note tendencies, symptoms, continental perspectives, and take off again — ready to write a book.