6 MARCH 1953, Page 13

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 160

Set by Joyce Johnson The usual prizes are offered for a soliloquy by any well-known statue in a public place. Limit fourteen lines of verse or hundred- and- fifty words of prose. Competitors must name the statue and its site.

Entries must be addressed to the Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1, in envelopes marked "Competition," and must be received not later than March 18th. Results will be published in the Spectator of March 27th.