12 JUNE 1959, page 34

Under The Turpentine Tree

Anabasis. By SL-John Perse. Translated by T. S. Eliot. (Faber and Faber, 15s.) Anabase is so difficult a poem that it is useful to have T. S. Eliot's own account of what he has,......

Here Tomorrow

THE literature about jazz is growing to formidable proportions; yet the books still tend to fall into one or two categories. Either they are gossip about personalities, which......