18 NOVEMBER 1955, page 40

From 'basin Street To Bermondsey

BY KINGSLEY AMIS I N common with most art-forms at any given stage of their development, jazz today stands at the crossroads. I can' not help knowing that if it stays there in......

The Buried People

BY PETER QUENNELL E IGHTY-EIGHT years before the birth of Christ, a noise like the hoarse blaring of a brazen war-trumpet is said to have resounded across Central Italy. It pro-......