A NEW COMPETITION
The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a list of the seven greatest • • Victorians. - • - Fon the pinposes of the competition, we confine the word Victorians ' the _British Empire.. What we are chiefly anxious to find out is how the reputations of our great men and women of the period. have 'Worn ; and which of them general intelligent opinion in our time takes to have been the- most representatite geniuses of the Trace. 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 as Tennyson and Bailey."' One of those names has sadly declined ; perhaps it will prove that there has been a very complete change in our standards.
The prize will be awarded to the list which comes most near to the general verdict. The limits of the period we leave to the common sense of our readers ; it would be hopeless to try
to.define them It is not in the slightest our wish that lifts should-be exclusively devoted to literary genius.
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RULES FOR COMPETITORS. ,
All entries must be reeeived on or before. Friday, July 2nd.
2. Competitors may send in as inany "entries as they wish, but -:each :entry must be :accompanied by one of tho coupons to be found on page 1100 of this issue.
- 3. The name and address (or the pseudonym) of every com- petitor must bo 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.
IL. Envelopes must be addressed : Competition, the Spectator, 13 York -Street, COvent Gaiden, London, W.C. 2.
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