The most difficult task connected with the competition has been laid on the shoulders of the examiners, for much painstaking has been required to decide as to the merits of papers where so many were good, so few second-rate, and such a trifling number meriting nothing but a “Let us try to do better next time.” The result of our examination is given in the following list of successful competitors, in which will be found the names of all the prize-winners and certificate-holders.
[Note: Two girls under the age at which the competition began, and fifteen over the age at which it terminated, sent in papers. To one of the two juniors, and to two of the fifteen seniors, a certificate has been awarded.]
THE SUCCESSFUL COMPETITORS.
THIRTEEN AND FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
Prize (One Guinea).
Hancock, Elsie L., South Norwood Park, S.E.
Prize (Half-a-Guinea).
Pearson, Edith R., Manchester.
Prize (Five Shillings).