28 JUNE 1969, page 13

Bottom's Up

THE PRESS BILL GRUNDY Some years ago, a melancholy fellow in Denmark announced that there's nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so. He could have been reading this last......

`always Verify Your References'

TABLE TALK DENIS BROGAN By what is a mere coincidence my old friend Malcolm Muggeridge has been writ- ing about the new edition of Bartlett while I have just finished reading......