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A Prize Of £5 Was Offered For A Character-sketch Of

Stalin taken from either C'arlyle's " Russian Revolution," or Gibbon's " Decline and Fall of the Russian Empire," or Macaulay's " Essay on Com- munism." There were fewer entries......

" I Would Rather Compose An Outline Of World History

in Jive sentences than adapt ' Pickwick Papers ' for the stage," wrote Mr. Kenneth Tynan recently. Competitors are asked to try their hand at the first task, the five sentences......