Sunday's Notes

Nicola Copping,"Skin Deep?" FT, 19 June, reviews Roger Scruton's Beauty, Geoffrey Jones's Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry, and Carol Dyhouse's Glamour: Women, History, Feminism.

Mark Mazower,"‘War and Peace': The Fact-Check," NYT, 20 June, reviews Dominic Lieven's Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of"War and Peace".

Simon Schama,"The Patriarch," TNR, 19 June, reviews Abigail Green's Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero.

Noemie Emery,"Beautiful and Damned," WS, 21 June, reviews Bill Patton's My Three Fathers and the Elegant Deceptions of My Mother, Susan Mary Alsop.

William Dalrymple,"Road Tripping With Sufi Mystics," Daily Beast, 18 June, recounts his recent book tour, promoting Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India.