5 MAY 1950, Page 15

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 18

Set by Gwendolen Freeman

A prize of 13, which may be divided, is offered for a comment by Tennyson, Browning or Matthew Arnold on the 1950 Royal Academy Exhibition.

Entries, which should not be more than fourteen lines long, must be addressed to the Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1, in envelopes marked " Competition," and must be received not later than May 12th. The results will be published in the Spectator of May 19th.