17 AUGUST 1951, page 14

"mir Lippettator ' Gugust 16th, 1851

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Spectator Competition No. 76

Report by E. W. Fordham Walter Bagehot said : " A man's mother Is his misfortune : his wife is his fault." A prize of f5 was offered for three new epigrams on domestic......

Spectator Competition No. 79

Set by R. S. Stanier A prize of f5, which may be divided, is offered for a verse translation of Catullus VIIL: Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire, et quod vides perisse perditum......