13 NOVEMBER 1953, page 14

Pollock's Pets

SIR, — Your circular letter has brought back many memories of the so-called " Pollock's Pets," who were at one time so closely con- nected with your paper. I was, in fact, a......

Spectator Competition No, 196 Set By V. P. Stratford A

big-game hunter in Bulawayo is reported as offering half-a-dozen baby crocodiles to anyone who will give them a "good home." Competitors are invited to wile a letter (limit 150......

Unfair To Goats Sir, —goats Should Not Be Libelled. Mrs....

Cooke did not libel them in her entry for Spectator Competition No. 192. She justly referred to those on the Mappin Terrace as " wild," not " evil." If my handwriting is to......

Reviewers Guyed

Competitors were asked to in vein an extract front a review of one of the following books, embodying as large a number as possible of false prophecies and unlucky comparisons:......