6 NOVEMBER 1926, Page 37

Mr. Paul Whiteman of jazz fame says that the ecstasies

of the saint are an intoxication, as is also the stupor of the drug habit, and that the jazz as an intoxicant comes somewhere between these two extremes. " The intoxicants that every living thing needs and somehow gets are merely a shaking back into the right rhythms." He firmly believes that jazz is an influence for good in the world, for it works through vibrations which " are somehow bound up with the deepest centres of life." Jazz (J. H. Sears, $3.00) is an interesting book which might be published over here.