23 JUNE 1950, page 15

Spectator Competition No. 23

Report by Mervyn Horder A prize of f5, which may be divided, is offered for the best con- tumelious epigram—English. Latin or Greek—in dispraise of either or both the two......

Spectator Competition No. 2s

Set by Marghanita Laski You are asked to produce a " Woman's Hour" for the Third Programme. Submit a scheme of six items, taking as your model the " Woman's Hour" now appearing......

A Ruined Railroad

As the old roads, rubbed clean by wheel or hoof, Chafed by the blue and scarlet waggons, and ringing With bell or the echoing shout of coachman's horn, Sink now under the......