20 NOVEMBER 1959, page 49

In ,vino Verba

Vim By Edward Hyams. (Newnes, 21s.) Tifi: next best thing to drinking wine is talking . about it, and all these books have the quality of good talk. Alec Waugh has been drinking......

God's Commission

c Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justi- ' • Bed Sinner. By James Hogg: (Calder, 13s.) OGG's Justified Sinner is a very unusual novel religious conscience, quite unlike......