SIXTH COMPETITION
THE EDITOR OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR A REMINIS- CENCE IN NOT MORE THAN 500 WORDS OF PROSE.
WHEN we have given competitors a choice between verse and prose, they have almost always chosen verse. Now Mr. Bernard Shaw has announced that it is harder to write prose than verse ; and we are most anxious that the art should not be lost. We are therefore setting a most prosaic competition. Our fear is that the vagueness of the announcement will discourage competitors. But how could we demand " A True Story," or " An Incident from Real Life " ? Those titles would sound too much like subjects for school essays. None the less, they are pretty nearly what we should wish to receive. We shall be glad to read accounts of incidents in life, which have seemed important, or somehow significant, to our readers, or which they can make significant in their relation. They may, if they choose, write straightforwardly of experiences in strange lands, of curious customs, of the differences between our age and the Edwardian or Victorian age. Any memory that has stuck to them through life will doubtless bear recounting.
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 946 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 Spectator, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2.
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