14 FEBRUARY 1925, Page 16

EPIGRAM COMPETITION

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sin,—An epigram ought to have Attic clearness, and, there- fore, mine, which you have honoured by publication, seems to be condemned by the fact that your selectors have misinter- preted it. My subject was not aeroplanes, but " broad- casting " ; and my point was the contrast between the vehicle and its cargo—dance music, "bed-time stories" and other [Mr. Healy's epigram was as follows :—

"See Nature, once mysterious, tamed to bear Nothings across a thousand leagues of air ; And say wherein the modem marvel lies— The astounding courier or the petty prize."

It is certainly more pointed as a reference to wireless.--En.. Speetahr.]