10 OCTOBER 1970, page 33

Sporting Life

Blaney's Bass CLIVE GAMMON Whatever little bit of a scrape Neil Blaney got himself into recently—you may recall that he was Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Irish......

• The Good Life

Eating for everyday Pamela Vandyke-Price Eating and drinking being matters as per- sonal as sex, it seuns strange for there to be so many rigid rules about what is 'good'......

Epilogue

CHRISTOPHER BOOKER A pervasive note of nostalgia 'for a vanished world was already creeping into Sir Neville Cardus's Autobiography when it was pub- lished over twenty years......

A Hundred Years Ago

From .the 'Spectator', 8 October 1870—There is a regular Mfinchausen story in a Belgian paper called the Nouvelles du Jour about the grappling of a French and Prussian balloon......