3 NOVEMBER 1950, Page 18

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 38

Set by Margaret Usborne

A prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered for a poem (of not more than eight lines) to go in a visitors' book, which makes the best of things on the lines of a comment heard recently : "It's 'such a pleasure to drygood glass." Entries must be addressed to the Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.r, in envelopes marked " Competition," and must be received not later than November zoth. Results will be published in the Spedator of November r7th.