THE
SIXTH COMPETITION
THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR A REMINIS- CENCE IN NOT MORE THAN 500 WORDS OF PROSE.
A HUNDRED years ago many magazines printed in each number a couple of columns labelled " Anecdotes." They were not necessarily the jests and repartees that we know
now as anecdotes. Perhaps a reader had written of a signal instance of fortitude that had stuck in his memory ; another described how the local barber had taken to the composition of verse ; a third would tell of the strange customs of savages. The columns made extremely good reading, and the miscellany columns of our modern papers are not a sufficient substitute for them. We should be very glad if our readers would send in for this competition any incident from life within their personal experience which they think it might be valuable or amusing to record. With a keen remembrance of our labours in past competitions, we feel moved to plead for typed, or at least plainly legible, MSS.
RULES FOR COMPETITORS
1. All entries must be received on or before Friday, June 26th.
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 1027 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 Spxtator, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2.
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