REPORT ON THE THIRD COMPETITION

The Editor offered a prize of £5 for an Epitaph in Advance upon Henry Ford, Jack Hobbs, or Professor Albert Einstein.

WE printed most of the best entries in last week's issue, and we thank and congratulate the authors. A few good epitaphs came to us later in the week, and we print a selection from these and from the entries which we have not before had space to quote.

. Henry Ford.

"` Are my cars plying ?

And does the business thrive ?

And do the old things jingle As when I Was alive ? '

' Yes, Ford, the business prospers, Though now you must contrive To ride your own contraptions.

Drive on, Henry, drive ! ' "

0. A. HAYFIELD.

" Da saltum, viator.

Si inonumentum non requiris Ciriumspiee." D. C.

" He moved the world ; he rests." H. B. B.

Jack Hobbs.

" Hobbs is not dead, but with his few peeri wields Tb' Elysian willow in Elysian fields."

Colgan.

" Peace to his ashes ! He who strove in vain To bring those other ashes home again."

H. A. SHORE.

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" A master at the lesser game, who learned To take serenely fortune fair or ill, lie, when the greater ended, smiled and turned Towards the High Pavilion with good will." • C. S. E.

Albert Einstein.

" Here Einstein lies ; an enterprising Teuton, Who, relatively speaking, silenced Newton."

N. COGHILL.

"With s,t-ntific truth his mind was stored, •

Which some disputed, and the rest ignored ; Now has great Einstein come into his own, Where space is infinite, and time unknown. The world he tried to teach has duly paid him With the sin feet of space where time has laid him."

JOCELYN C. LEA.

The epitaphs on Hobbs have been the most kindly, those oil Einstein the- scantiest. As we anticipated, the competi- tion was not difficult to judge. Among the competitors whose entries we have not printed we thank especially Mr. G. M. McCulloch, Mr. W. IL Marshall, " W. Help," Mr. D. B. Buck- ley, " Sap," W. J., " Equator," A. A. le M. S., Sir Wm. Perry, Mr. Arnold McKerrow, Mr. Gerard Fiennes, Mr. P. R. Laird, Mrs. L. H. Nott. But the issue has only been in doubt between Mr. Thomas Thorneley and " Luscus " ; and there it was rather gravely itidetibt, for each of them contributed two epitaphs worthy of ti prize. After some hesitation, the prize

goes firally to " Luscus," for no reason except that we par. ticularly like his epitaph. Will he please send us his address ?

JACK HOBBS.

"Here ayes Jack Hobbs, not bowl'd nor stump'd nor catcht, But, like the rest, with Death unfairly matcht :

Dread King, to whom th' unconquered Spirit yields.

Grant him new Triumphs in th' Elysian Fields : Or, if such Lawrels grow not in that Place

Where other Gamesters other Games irabrace, r

Let him converse with Nyren and with Grace, ) And joyn, among the brightest of 'em all, The Constellation of the Bat and Ball." Luscus.

RULES FOR COMPETITORS.

1. All entries must be received on or before Friday, May 1st.

2. Competitors may send in as many entries as they wish, but each entry must be accompanied by one of the coupons to be found on page 02 of this issue.

3. The name and address (or the pseudonym) of every com- petitor must be written clearly at the foot of his manuscript.

4. The Editor cannot return any manuscript submitted for the competition, nor can he enter into correspondence with competitors.

5. The Editor reserves the right of printing any manuscript submitted.

6. Envelopes must be addressed : Competition, the Spectator, 13 York Street, Covent Cfarden, London, W.C. 2.