11 JANUARY 1952, page 14

Spectator Competition No. Ioo

Set by Marghanita Laski The immortality of so many poets rests on brief quotations that it seems probable that many Spectator readers could achieve it too— so long as they......

Spectator Competition No. '97

Report by John Clarke In 1620 Isaac Duckett bequeathed a sum of £400, the interest from which was to be distributed annually for the benefit " of poor Maid Servants (within the......

"0.2) Overlain" Lanuarp Lotb, 1852.

THE Caffre war, which Sir Harry Smith was to finish off by his mere appearance, continues, at a cost, says Sir Charles Shaw, of 0,800 a diy. . . A battalion of the Rifle Brigade......