15 SEPTEMBER 1950, Page 11

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 35

Set by MERVYN HORDER

Chocolates, presumably, will one day come off the ration again, this time for ever. A prize of L5, which may be divided, is offered for an account of this event as it might have appeared in a narrative by any one of the following : Jane Austen, Mrs. Gaskell, Eleanor Glyn, Angela Brazil, Virginia Woolf, I. Compton Burnett.

Entries must be addressed to the Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.t, in envelopes marked "Competition," and must be received not later than September 22nd. Results will be published in the Spectator of September 29th.