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Spectator Competition No. 138

Set by Frank Evelyn - Autumn Books.—Readers are invited to submit imaginary excerpts from imaginary publishers' lists, together with quotations from the blurbs ; not more than......

Two Short Poems

"A stubborn, barbarous race ! " the alien vows : " Shopkeepers, mutes, dull rural sheep and cows I Blinded to Art ;. sans wit, esprit and ton; Gauche lackeys, yawning at Life's......

Spectator Competition No. 135

Report by Marghanita Laski Since literary fashion will eventually praise many best-sellers which at present it denigrates, competitors were invited to submit excerpts from new......

Butterflies " To Be Always Seeking After The Useful Does

not become free and exalted Souls . " Aristotle Plato to his Utopia No poet would admit. But they—his captives too—who make Songs for mere joy and music's sake, Under his Pupil......