22 OCTOBER 1965, Page 12

Friends in Low Places

SIR,—Your competitive-minded readers might like to know that we are running a competition based on Simon Raven's novel Friends in Low Places, which was reviewed in the Spectator last week. Readers are invited to send a 750 to 1,000-word criticism of this novel to us for judgment by Malcolm Muggeridge and Brigid Brophy. The Café Royal is giving a dinner for the winner, judges and author, at which £50 worth of book tokens will be distributed. Competitors are asked to send their entries together with (I am afraid) the price clipped off the jacket to us at this address.

56 Doughty Street, WC1

ANTHONY BLOND