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Great Tom: Notes towards the Definition of T. S. Eliot, by T. S. Matthews (Harper, 219 pp., $8.95)

T. S. Eliot has been dead for almost a decade and his widow, according to the author of this interim sketch, is looking for a biographer. Matthews himself is not her man. He wrote one of our best autobiographies (Name and Address), but his attempt to portray the elusive Mr. Eliot does not come off.

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Great Tom: Notes towards the Definition of T. S. Eliot, by T. S. Matthews (Harper, 219 pp., $8.95)

T. S. Eliot has been dead for almost a decade and his widow, according to the author of this interim sketch, is looking for a biographer. Matthews himself is not her man. He wrote one of our best autobiographies (Name and Address), but his attempt to portray the elusive Mr. Eliot does not come off.