22 AUGUST 1952, page 13

An Ideal Birthday Gift

We will post the SPECTATOR to any of your friends residing in any part of the world at the following rates :— 52 weeks, 35s. ; 26 weeks, 17s. 6d. In addition a Birthday Greeting......

Spectator Competition No. 132

Set by D. R. Peddy The practice is increasing of advertising certain products with " educational " (historical, geographical or scientific, &c.) copy, e.g. " It was 1752, the......

Spectator Competition No. 129 Report By R. Kennard Davis A

prize of £5 was offered for a poem entitled " Disillusionment," based on and including the following lines from Wordsworth's poem :- She was a phantom of delight When first she......