26 OCTOBER 1951, page 16

Spectator Competition No. 89

Set by Richard Usborne . The following arrive at the Pearly Gates : Father Brown, Berry Pleydell, Sherlock Holmes, Walter Mitty, Lord Ernsworth, Lord Peter Wimsey, Mr. Salteena,......

H E Eppettator " Jattober 25th, 1851

• HERMAN MELVILLE'S WHALE Tins sea novel is a singular medley of naval observation, magazine article writing, satiric reflection upon the conven- tionalisms of civilised life,......

Spectator Competition No. 86 Report By R. J. P. Hewison

A prize of LS was offered for the title and first six lines of poems which might have been, but never were, written by any two of Marvell, Dryden, Keats, Browning, Hardy, D. H.......