2. Ignoring the fanciful guile With which we these efforts compile, Her attempt was slap-dash, And was fated to clash With all proper notions of style. 3. So, finding her failure complete, She fell at the Editor's feet-- Metaphorically-- And acknowledged that she Was cured of her latest conceit. PRIZE WINNERS. _Seven Shillings and Sixpence Each._ Josephine Burne, 5, Howbeck Road, Oxton, Birkenhead. Constance Daphne, Alresford, Hants. Dorothy Fulford, 49, Bateman Street, Cambridge. Sophie C. Funnell, 25, Clarendon Place, Leeds. Winifred A. Lockyear, Willow Grove, Beverley. Miss A. A. L. Shave, 6, Craufurd Rise, Maidenhead. Violet Shoberl, Hookwood, Edge Hill, Wimbledon. Helen Simpson, 32, Brighton Place, Aberdeen. _Five Shillings Each._ Miss A. Kilburn, Penkridge, Staffs. Agnes McConnell, Ballycarry, Belfast. Lucy Richardson, 2, Bootham Terrace, York. S. Southall, South Bank, Worcester. Mrs. C. E. Warren, Ashantee Villa, Norwich Road, Ipswich. W. Fitzjames White, 9, Kinfauns Terrace, Low Fell, Gateshead. Miss Wilkins, Westcroft, Trowbridge, Wilts. Rev. H. Addams Williams, Llangibby Rectory, Newport, Mon. _Equal with First-Prize Winners._ Mrs. J. Cumming, Edith E. Grundy, E. St. G. Hodson, E. Lord, M. Theodora Moxon, A. C. Sharp, Ellen C. Tarrant. _Equal with Second-Prize Winners._ Eliza Acworth, Lily Belling, F. M. Morgan, E. R. Oliver, Isabel Snell, G. S. Wilkins. _Most Highly Commended._ Ethel B. Angear, Florence M. Angear, Elsie I. Bale, Elsie Bayley, Mabel Brownlow, M. J. Champneys, Helen M. Coulthard, Rose D. Davis, E. H. Duncan, E. Ross Duffield, Dorothy V. Foley, A. Goakes, Mrs. W. H. Gotch, Alice L. Hewlett, M. Hodgkinson, G. D. Honeyburne, F. W. Hunt, Alice E. Johnson, Elizabeth A. Lord, Rev. C. T. McCready, Ethel O. McMaster, Benjamin Marcroft, Isabella M. Maxwell, Mrs. Nichols, Margaret G. Oliver, Gertrude Pegler, A. Pentelow, A. T. Porter, Constance M. Reade, Annie Roberson, Winifred H. Roberts, Kate Robinson, J. C. Scott, Lucy Shattock, James J. Slade, Gertrude Smith, Ethel Tomlinson, Etheldreda, M. Viner, Emily Wilkinson, Henry Wilkinson. _Very Highly Commended._