26 OCTOBER 1985, page 33

Dangerously Close To Success

John McEwen VINCENT BY HIMSELF edited by Bruce Bernard Orbis £25 (£30 in 1986) E veryone familiar with Bruce Ber- nard's Photodiscovery and The Bible and Its Painters knows that......

`shall I Have Any Lasting Reputation?'

Christopher Hawtree HUGH WALPOLE by Rupert Hart-Davis Hamish Hamilton, f6.50 'ye been reading some of Hugh Wal- pole lately — urn-um — well there's something there, not probably......