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Spectator Competition No. 177

Set by Richard Usborne Hilaire Belloc will be eighty-three on July 27th. In his " Dedicatory Ode " he wrote : And One (Myself I mean—no less) Ah Posterity believe it— Not only......

Spectator Competition No. 174

Report by Allan M. Laing In his book, The English Language, recently re-issued, Professor Ernest Weekley remarks that " it is quite possible, with a little in- genuity, to give......