23 JANUARY 1953, page 15

The Usual Prizes Were Offered For An Estate Agent's Blurb

about Wuthering Heights, Cold Comfort Farm, Toad Hall or the Castle at Dunsinane. A large entry revealed a widespread belief in the gullibility of other people, especially......

An Ideal Birthday Gift

We will post the SPECTATOR to any of your friends residing in any part of the world at the following rates :— 52 weeks, 35s.; 26 weeks, 17s. 6d. In addition a Birthday Greeting......

Spectator Competition No. 154 Set By J. M. Cohen A

Prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered for a translation In equivalent English form of the following sonnet by the early seventeenth- century poet Jean-Baptiste......