SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. is8
Set by Allan M. Laing
One of Samuel Butler's best-known notes is : " It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another and so make only.two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing." Competitors are asked, for the usual prizes, to submit equally pungent " notes " (in English) on any other famous married couple : e.g.,- the Pepyses, the Steeles, the Brownings, the Webbs, the Shaws, etc., etc. Competitors' common sense will, on this occasion, impose its own reasonable word-limit.
Entries must be addressed to the Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1, in envelopes marked "Competition," and must- be received not later than March 4th. Results will be published in the Spectator of March 13th.