16 MAY 1952, page 15

Spectator Competition No. Iis

Set by John Usborne A prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered for the best native comments on British weather in one triolet stanza, beginning either "it's bound to stop......

Spectator Competition No. Iis

Report by Mervyn Horder "Ah well, I must stop now, as the watch said when the little boy filled it full of treacle," wrote Lear in one of his letters. A prize of £5 was offered......

"tbe )13trtator," Alp 150, 1852.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION Among the subjects of invention two stand pre-eminently forth as something more than inventions in the bare current acceptation of the term—as......