17 SEPTEMBER 1965, Page 21

Raymond Postgate's plain men having all graduated to Morton Shand

'and Warner Allen, It is the plain boys growing up (and presumably the plain girls, for they'll need some consolation) who will disburse their 18s. on the new edition that Michael Joseph has just published. When the Plain Man's Guide to Wine was first published fourteen years ago it was little more than hall' this price and only twenty pages shorter. It cer- tainly lacked the new section on liqueurs which Nally should have been entitled `Chactin a son Plain-spoken plain man, Mr. Postgate, whose ('pinions on wine are not only worth the outlay OI the volume, but could conceivably earn a eturn on the investment in mistakes avoided and money saved.

Afterthought

By AL AN BRIEN