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SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 193 Set by Edward Blishen "The name

of Mr. Joseph Conrad is new to us, but it appears to us as if he might become the Kipling of the Malay Archipelago," wrote a reviewer in 1898. Competitors are asked to invent an extract (limit 200 words) from a review of one of Me following books, embodying as large a number as possible of false prophecies and unlucky comparisons : Joseph Andrews, Sense and Sensibility, Waverley, Vanity Fair, Pickwick Papers, Good-night-time The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Under The Greenwood Tree.

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 November 3rd. Results will be published in the Spectator of November 13th.