A NEW COMPETITION
The Editor offers n prize. of 25 for a list of the ,seven greatest _ Victorians. • • •
Fon the purposes of the competition, we confine the word " Victorians " to the British Empire. What we are chiefly anxious ticifmd- out is ho* the reputations-of our great men and women of the period have worn ; and WhichOf thein general intelligent opinion in our time takes to have been. the most representative geniuses of the race. We remember reading. an article Written in the 'sixties, the author of which remarked --" Why should we fear to compare Our own age with any of the great literary periods of the past ? We can feel sure that it will go down to posterity with honour and admiration, when we have amongst Us such Poets is Tennyson and: Bailey.", One of thosenarnes has sadly _declined; perhaps. it -will prove: that there has been a_VerY complete change in our standards The prize Will he -iiivarded •to,:the -list--which cornea most near to the general verdict The Ihnits. of the period we leave to the common sense Of our readers ; it would be hopeless to try. to define them exactly. It is not in the 'slightest our Wish that'
lists should be exclusively devoted to literary ;OM*: • . i - RULES FOR -COMPETITORS.
• 1. All entries must be received on or before Friday,-.Tuly 2nd. ; .s
i 2. Competitoris may Send in as many entries - as they wish, - tut each entry -Must be p'ecompariled by one of the coupons to be found orilsage iii .of' this issue. , I'
i 3. The name and address Icsr the pseudonym) of every corn. Retitor must -be .written- clearly-st the loot. of his' manuscript. -
4. The Editor cannot:return any manuscript submitted fotythe ' competition, nor can-he enter. into eorrespondence with competitors. • 5. _The .Rditer. reserves, the, right of printing, any manuscript : t 6. -Envelopes must be addressed : Competition, the Spectator, '
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