18 NOVEMBER 1955, Page 68

Competitors with good memories for poetry or prepared to indulge

in an antho- logy hunt are invited (for a prize of £.5) t° concoct a literary plain pudding by fittio together fourteen lines selected front well- known poems. The subject must be sone aspect of Christmas, and not more than one line may be borrowed from any single poem. Alternate lines, at least, must rhyme.

Entries, addressed 'Spectator Competition No. 301; 99 Gower Street, London, WC1: must be received by November 29. Real' in the Spectator of December 9.