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Spectator Competition No. 136

Report by Alan Brien The usual prizes were offered for excerpts from Johnson on Boswell, Pope on Johnson, Goethe on Eckermann, General Gordon on Lytton Strachey, or Zola on......

Spectator Competition No. 139 Set By John Usborne The Usual

prize is offered for the best fable (Kiplingesque) explaining one of the following : a dog's circumambulations before curling up bt' the fire ; the cuckoo's parasitic habits ;......