"Spectator" Competitions

RULES AND CONDITIONS

Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, nr pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry and not on a separate sheet. When a word limit is sot words must ba 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 min he entered into on the subject of the award. Entries must be addressed to :—The Editor, the Spectator, 99 Cower Street. London, W.C. 1, and be marked on the envelope Competition No. (—).

A PRIZE of £2 2s. is offered for the best Open Letter to a Reviewer, in not more than 250 words.

Entries must be received not later than Monday, April 4th, 1932. The result of this competition will appear in our issue of April 10th, 1932.

Competition No. 52 (SET BY "

A PRIZE of £2 2s. is offered for a Patchwork Poem on Spring, in not less than twelve or more than twenty lines, each line being taken front a different published English poem. No poet may be quoted more than twice and full references must be given.

Entries must be received not later than Monday, April 11th, 1932. The result of this competition will appear in our issue of April 23rd, 1932.

The result of Competition No. 50 will appear in our next issue.

Limerick Competition No. 22 A PRIZE of £1 ls. 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-second of these competitions closes on Monday, April 11th, 1982. Entries should he marked " Limerick No. 22."

The result of the twentieth of these competitions will be 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. 49

[REPORT AND AWARD BY CARD."j

A P lin: of two guineas was offered for the best list of names suitable for any five of the following ten imaginary persons.

(1 A rabbit fancier living in Cavendish Square. (2 A doctor practising in South Kensington Station.

(3) A Cabinet Minister afflicted with St. Vitus Dance.

(4 A butcher suffering from religious mania. (5 A croquet-playing (6) A probitionist married to a whisky magnate's daughter. (7) A soothsayer with a stammer.

(8 A peer who has lost his memory.

(9) A bearded woman in love. (10) A man who does match-tricks.

Stimulated (presumably) by the correspondence in The Times, competitors inclined alike to the fantastic but conceiv- able and the frankly impossible. There was inevitably a lot of too obvious punning, in which the Bearded Woman not unnaturally came off worst. The entries of E. M. Howe, Jocelyn C. Lea, Malcolm Campbell, and Mrs. C. M. Wilson are commended : and the prize is awarded to Lt.-Col. F. A.

Goddard, 4.5 Warwick Road, S.W. 5. _ .

• THE WINNING ENTRY.

(1) A Cabinet Minister afflicted with St. Vitus Dance.—RT. How.

WILLIAM EWART TWITCHF-RLEY.

(2) A butcher suffering from religious mania.--JEHORAM Immo Vzsues.

(3) A peer who has lost his memory.—HEDWIO DE LOTUS, 13TH BARON HAYSEED.

(4) A bearded woman in 10VO.—BARBARA MAUDLIN BEEVAMORE. (5) A man who does rnateli4rieks.--BRIAN Termini° May. . Liam-Cot. F. A. GODDARD.

Commended : .

(1) BUNNY MAirrix. WEST (Bunny-mart in west). (4) Evior Wurnson CARVER (Heaven wins a carver). (6) WILLIE SAYWEN "(W111 lie say when ?). (9) BOLDORA INA BELVOIR (His adorer in a beaver). (10) Sart KNACK (It's all knack).

JOCELYN C. LEA.

Competition No. 51 (SET BY " CARD.") (4) A butcher suffering from religious mania—Ms. THEOPHILUS

SLAUGHTER.

(5) A croimet.playing BONBALL STRONGITHARN.

(8) A peer who has lost his Inemory.—MYOSOTIS, EARL OF Levee.

(9) A bearded woman in 10V0.—MRS. AMANDA BEITINA BEAVER.

(10) A man who does tnatch-tricks.--Luctrim Mximusisit. Eso. (ams.) C. M. WilmoN.

(1) .AUGUSTUS WOT.LEY-BUCK.

(3) RT. HON. HECTOR EVERSLEY-TREMBLING, M.P.

(7) ANANIAS SLOWCOCE AND(REW) BULL.

(8) AMNESIA VERRALIN, VISIOUNT FORGETIT.

(9) Miss Amv BOYES-TIRLER.

(I) GUY BENCINCK CONEY.

(4) BRIMSTONE CARVER.

(5) BUNCH HOOPER.

(9) BARBARA TRUF.LOVE,

(10) TOBY BRYANT.

E. M. HONE.

Result of Limerick Competition No. 19 THE most popular subjects for Limericks this week were An Open Letter to the Editor of The Times (Moth), George Herbert (T. S. Eliot), One August in the lied Sea (Lord Dunsany), Lord Chesterfield (F. W. Rain), An Account of Tibet (V. S. Pritchett), and Yoga (F. Yeats-Brown).

The prize is awarded to Stencil," who is asked to send name and address.

?IL/SCOUR CAMPBVI.L.