"Spectator" Competitions RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or

very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry and not on a separate sheet. When a word limit is set words must be counted and the number given. No entries can be returned. Prizes may be divided at the discretion of the judge, or withheld if no entry reaches the required standard. The judge reserves the right to print or quote. from any entry. The judge's decision is final, and no correspondence can be entered into on the subject of tho award. Entries must bo addressed to :—The Editor, the Spectator, 99 Gower Street,

London, W.C. 1, and be marked on the envelope Competition No. (—).

-Competition No. 5o (SET BY " DUGLL") A PRIZE of £2 2s. is offered for a Birthday Greeting addressed to a child, in not more than twenty-five lines of English verse.

Entries must be received not later than Monday, March 28thf 1932. The result of this competition will appear in our issue o April- 9th, 1932.

Competition No. 51 (SET BY " CARD.") A PRIZE of £2 2s. is offered for the best Open Letter to a Reviewer, in not more than 250 words.

Entries must bo received not later than- Monday, April 4th, 1932. The result of this competition will appear in our issue of April 16th, 1932.

The result of Competition No. 49 will appear in our next issue: Limerick CoMpetition No. 21 Al PRIZE of £1 Is. is offered each week for a new and original English Limerick verse on 'some subject dealt with in the current number of. the' Spectator. The twenty-first of these competitions closes on Monday, April 4th, 1932. Entries should be marked " Limerick No. 21:7 The result of the nineteenth of these competitions will he announced in our next issue.

[It . is. requested that, to facilitate the work of the judges, entries should, when possible, be submitted on postcards.]

Report of Competition No. 48

[REPORT AND AWARD BY " DITGLI.1 A PRIZE of 12 2s. was offered for a list of suggested familiar names for any six of the following buildings, events and institutions : The Chelsea Flower Show, the Albert H all, the Royal Academy Sunurier Exhibition, the B.B.C. News Bulletin, Piccadilly Circus, the Royal Tournament at Olympia, Somerset-House, the Automobile Association, the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, the British Museum.

Some of the familiar names suggested in this competition -4ecin so obvious that it is difficult to believe they are hot in everyday use. Perhaps they are, and it is only in the stately seclusion of the Spectator office that people do not talk of hearing a concert or seeing a boxing match at " Bert's," or of taking a 'bus to the Hub or the Pie :arena.

Several entries failed by being too clever. It is hard to imagine anyone calling the Academy the " Post-Paint- Parade " or the Chelsea Flower Show the " Ball of Blooms." But " The Painties " for the former, suggested by several competitors, seems the logical punishment for allowing the quite horrible " movies " and " talkies " to grow on to the English language.

The British Museum was not popular. It was " Fossil- dam," " The Junk House," " Fossils," " The Dug Out," " The B. Musty,- evenfortunately in one list only !—" The Mouldies."

Piccadilly Circus was " Circumferos," " Cochran's " or " Cupid's Corner," The Erostrum," " The Roundelay." The A.A. was more recognizable as " The Auk " than as " The Colossus of Roads. The nIn.c. Bulletin was " The Radio Bull," " The Beebeciter " and " Home Chat." Somerset House was " Winky " (from Wills and Income Tax). The Wimbledon Tennis Tournament " The Wimbles," " Wimtest " or " The Roaring Forties." . The Royal Tournament was the least happily named event, the most successful attempts being " Rataplan " or " Tomjacks." . .I. IL, 14 Doughty Street, The prize' of £2 2s. is awarded to -Miss C. • M. KiiInedy; " Samini$"•Misi -C.-- O'Connor, Lt.-Col.. Goddard and : Monksilver 7 arc Commended.

THE WINNING Albert Hall . . Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. • B.B.C. News . . . . . .

Piccadilly Circus . • Somerset House. .

British Museum Chelsea Hower Show ..

Albert Hall . . .

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition B.B.C. News Bulletin . . . .

Piccadilly Circus . . . . Royal Tournament at Olympia Somerset House.. . Automobile .4ssociation • . . Wimbledon Tennis Tournantent British Museum .

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition . .

B.B.C. News Bulletin .. . . . .

Piccadilly Circus . . . . . .

Royal Tournament at Olympia . . Wimbledon Tennis Tournament . .

British Museum . . . .

Chelsea Flower Show . . . . . . CHELCALA

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition . . Itiisex

B.B.C. News Bulletin . . RADIO Bull,.

Piccadilly Circus . . PlevARENA Automobile .4ssociation . . AUTO. ABS.

Wimbledon Tennis Tournament WIM.TEN.T.

(Miss) C. O'CuNNolt.

Albert Hall. . .. . . . . THE Dnum Royal Academy Summer Exhibition . . THE BURLY B.B.C. News Bulletin .. . . . . THE GASBAG Piccadilly .. . . THE Hun

Automobile Association. THE Ault.

British iluseum . . THE B.M.

MoxICSILVFat.

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Itiricas (R.A. Pictures)

B.B.C. Neuu Bulletin . . . . BROIT(Broadcast.,copyright

by Reuters) .

Royal Tournament at Olympia ARTIE (R—T) Somerset House.. . WINKY (Wills and income

Tax)

Wimbledon Tennis Tournament PAT (Pat-ball) British Mustunt . . 111 t:JISI: (MUMIlly-MURelini)

LIST.

BIG BERT

THE PAINT] ES UNCLE OXFoRD DILLY ROUND Tax

THE MUMMY BIN

.1.

COMM/lided.

• • FLORA • • BERT's . • THE PAINTIEs • . BROADNEWS

• •THE Hun

• • TONJAcIES • • DEEDS • • WHEELER'S

• • Tut: Wimnixs . • FOSSILS (Miss) C. M. KENNEDY.

THE STATittNARIES

THE BEEBErITER CIRCU3IT'EROS KHAKI-LARKY TENSE-NETS THE MOULDIES

F. A. (loori■se.

Result of Limerick Competition No. 18

THE most popular subjects for Limericks this week were : China and Japan (F. Yeats-Brown), Barren Spring (Pearl Buck), The World and Mr. Wells (Gerald Heard), Drinking Imperially (P. MOrton Shand), The Imperial Idea (Sir Norman Angell), The Little Men (" Moth 7), Epstein and the Man in the Street. The entries of Rev. H. E. Trask, John White. and Robert Anderson are commended and the prize is awarded. to Mrs. C. Morison, 30 Saxe Coburg Place, Edinburgh.

TAE WINNING ENTRY.

THE LITTLE MEN (page 313). What's the key to the " little men " stunt For whom it's so futile to hunt ? Are they far more exclusive

re Than they a obtrusive ? • Hush ! I'll whisper the answer : " Non Hunt ! " • C. Mos Commended: .

*Tares AND CHINA (Page 30i, 318),

Well-armed thieves in a temple of jade

Shot and bombed all who hindered their raid ; Crying, as they ransacked, " We are meanly attacked, This is purely a peaceful parade 1" ROBERT A NDERS, MR. EL-STEIN AND TILE MAN IN THE STREET (page 320). Mr. Epstein seems to suggest That Nature is queer at the best, . . What you get when it's scratched Is not human, but hatched From the egg of a Basilisk's nest. Rev. • It K T It A - K.