"Spectator" Competitions

RULES AND CONDITIONS

Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or Pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry and not on a separate sheet. When a word limit is set words must be counted and the number given. No entries can be returned. Prizes may be divided at the discretion of the judge, or withheld if no entry reaches -the required,stauulard, The judge reserves tit; right to print or quote from any catty. The judge's decision is final, and no correspondence can be entered into on the subject of the award. Entries must be addressed to :—The Editor, the Spectator, 99 Cower Street,

London, W.C. 1, and be marked on the envelope Competition No. (—).

Companion No. 6o (SET BY "Dun LL") A PRIZE of £2 2s. is offered for a Safety Jingle for Pedestrians. Competitors are reminded of the seaman's Rule of the Road : " When both side lights show ahead

Port your helm and show your red, &e."

and of other memory jingles that are worth a score of rules.

Entries must be received not later than Monday, June 6th, 1932. The result of this competition will appear in our issue of Juno 18th, 1932.

The result of Competition No. 58 will appear in our next issue.

Limerick Competition No. 3o A PRIZE of £1 ls. is offered each week fora new and original English Limerick verse on some subject dealt with in the current number of the Spectator. The thirtieth of these competitions closes on Monday, June 6th, 1032. Entries should be marked " Limerick No. 30."

The result of the twenty-eighth of these competitions will be announced in our next issue.

[It is requested that, to facilitate the work of the judges, entries should, when possible, be submitted on postcards.]

Result of Limerick Competition No. 27 'PRE most popular subjects for Limericks this week were :

The Revival of Ear-Craft" (J. D. F.), " The Speaking of

Poetry " (John Masefield), " A Letter from Dublin," " Alex-

ander the Great " (Sir Arnold Wilson), and " Wings over Europe " (Derek Verschoyle). The prize is awarded to W. A. Rathkey, 14 Oxford Road, N.W. 6.

THE WINNING ENTRY.

ON ARMAMENTS AND PROGRESS (page 664).

" There is something more than destruction involved in armaments or the word armaments."

Just kindly observe that we make Explosives for charity's sake ; We are selling them all

At a military ball,

And the proceeds the hospitals take !

W. A. RATHEEC.

Commended Entries :

Tax REVIVAL of EAR-CeArr (page 658) If friends, Romans, countrymen lend Their ears ; and this movement extend ; Have you, Sir, no fears

That, through the long years, Our ears may develop no end 1 HAIR.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT (page 669) I postpone the sublime Alexander To the new comic Muse of Menander, To the flowers of HIRAM The fight by the Isms,

As to Sappho the flute of Terpandor.

T. E. CASSON.

Report of Competition No. 57

(REPORT AND AWARD WY " CARD." )

I'r was to be supposed that Mr. Epstein had been honoured with Membership of the Royal Academy. A prize of £2 2s. arse offered for the -best poem, of not more than twenty-five lines, commemorating the event. We have italicized the word "commemorating." Having asked for the bread of salutation, we were rationed with the stones of satire. The shades of Pope, of Swift, ' and of Marston rose up in solemn, if superogatory, wrath. On to the Competition No. 59 (SET BY " CARD.") Gothic symmetry of a Miltonic structure were grafted baroque • gargoyles of petulance. Our indignation at this misinterpre- IT is supposed that by the year 1052 the Derby has become tation of our motives was not allayed by the indifferent quality a contest between mechanical vehicles. A prize of £2 2s. of most of the verse of this kind submitted. Of the cola- is offered for the best poem, of not more than thirty lines, petitors who did what they were asked to, there can be Ito describing the race. question of the most successful. The prize is awarded to Entries must be received not later than Monday, May 30th, _ T. E. Casson, Haydoek Lodge, Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire. 1932. The result of this competition will appear in our issue of The entries of Gerald Summers, W. Hodgson Burnet. F. B. June 11th, 1932. Matthews, M. S. Maughan, and Philip John are commended.

THE WINNING ENTRY. To EPSTEIN.

Not thine, 0 master, is the chiselled grace,

Chryselephantine, of the Phoidian form ; The poised trajectory and the-heavenly face Paeonius winged with victory in the storm.

Not the bronze discus-thrower Myron knew, Is thine, sage sculptor ; net the goal-like calm Praxiteles on Hermes, marvelling, threw, Borrowing celestial virtue ; not the palm Borne by the victors on the athletic sand, Immortalized in statues by the gate Of Hellene cities, or that glorious stand In fora, the antagonists of Fate.

Nor thine, great seer, the column that foretold The fame of Trajan to succeeding men, In winding.spirels imaging the old Conflicts by Hebrus and the Dacian fen.

But thee, 0 esemplast, the demiurge Gifted with Genesis. Thy seeing eye Embraces Chaos and the waves that surge Upon the shore of dark Eternity.

Thou by thy hand brougbt'st Order from the void. Thou to the Darkness spakest ; there was light.. Thou hurled'at the levin. Titans were destroyed, And Heaven sprang forth from quintessential Night.

T. E. C ‘SSON.

Commended Entries:

EPSTEIN JOINS THE R.A.

Bring Pegasus. that grey rob, .

And rouse the Muse, the jade,

For Mr. Epstein (Jacob) Intent to shock the Slade, Descends from peaks sublimer, With Rastourmji and Rime, To join us—Oh ! Jemima !- By Burlington's Arcade. How blinding are those star rays ! How fierce that meteor's shine !

We A.R.A.'s and R.A.'s, Who dangle on the lino And boost our bean; and bronzes,

Had better take our conga

And, shaking like blanc-manges Or jelly-fish, resign. Yet ope for him the portals And watch the giant grin ; Take courage, timid mortals ! Let's send our efforts in, Although I fear, between us, Unless the dense crowds screen us, That, next to his, our Venus May look a trifle thin !

ON MR. EPSTEIN BEING ADUCITED To MEMBERSHIP OF TII ROYAL ACADEMY.

He who till now with brows as black as thunder ground His teeth and pointed to the " shapeless mass'

Over the entrance to St. James's UndergrounD Will feel to-day that he has been an ass.

Some artiste too will look supremely silly soon When Epstein whom they loved so to deride Exhibits " shapeless " things in Piccadilly soon, Things they will have to swallow—with their pride. They laughed at " Rims " and they scorned his " Genesi.," They ran him down and sakkke couldn't sculp, Yes, now the things they looked upon as menaces

They'll simply have to swallow at a gulp. .

1 think those artiste who (of either sex) owed us (Who loved him) an apology for years

Would look well in a little group called " Exodus " —An emigration with-no call for tears.

GERALD SC M L W. HODGSON BARNET.