27 SEPTEMBER 1969, page 15

Books Pound Revalued

TONY TANNER Ezra Pound is now living in Venice. It seems the most appropriate habitation for the man who once said, 'Have I a country at all?' and whose restlessness prompted T.......

Naturalist Afloat

OLIVER WARNER Darwin and the Beagle by Alan Moore- head (Hamish Hamilton 75s) This chocolate-cream of a book developed, we are told, from what was originally a film treatment.......