16 FEBRUARY 1940, page 32

Fiction

THREE of these four women novelists tell their tales this time in direct unfolding from the feminine point of view, each of them settling, oddly enough, upon a feminine group......

Report On Competition No.. 21 Certain Celebrated Men Of The

past—Dr. jowett and the Rev. W. A. Spooner were given as examples—are remembered less for their real achievements than because of the agreeable anecdotes (generally apocryphal)......

The Spectator Competitions No. 23

PRIZES of book tokens for £2 2s. and Li is. are offered for the most enjoyable descriptions of, or reflections on, the black- out in the style of any one of the following (I)......