22 DECEMBER 1939, page 26

Recent Verse

Orion Marches. By Michael Roberts. (Faber. 6s.) MR. MICHAEL ROBERTS is what cricketers call a " good all- rounder." He writes poetry, edits it, criticises it and theorises about......

The Spectator Competitions No. If

AN eminent writer recently pointed out the extreme rarity in English literature of passages devoted to the description of a happy day. Prizes of book tokens for £2 zs. and LI......

Report On Competition No. 13

THE customary prizes were offered for nicknames coined from an abstract quality (on the model of " Capability " Brown) to fit any five of the twelve gentlemen whose names recur......