Certificates of merit will also be given—first, second, and third class—and these will be awarded to girls of any age who gain the necessary number of marks.
A special prize of a Gold Medal-Brooch will be given—for the first time in our series of competitions—to
Foreign and Colonial Competitors of All Ages.
We have long recognised the fact that those who live abroad labour, as a rule, under considerable disadvantages in competing with the majority of girls who stay at home, and we are glad to show, by the offer of this special prize, our appreciation of the painstaking efforts of many readers in distant places.
Foreign and Colonial competitors will on this occasion have longer time allowed them for sending in their papers.
All readers, everywhere, are invited to enter for this competition, which,
in view of the approaching Jubilee of Her Majesty,
has a special interest. The testimony of many who have taken part in previous competitions is that they proved sources not only of considerable enjoyment, but of great intellectual profit. The present one has features as valuable as any competition that has ever been started. To engage in it can hardly fail to widen our sympathies and increase our interest in the world around us and in the age in which we live.
Even those who fail to obtain either a prize or a certificate will not have spent their time uselessly. Let them keep in mind that:
“No endeavour is in vain,