... To the Editor of the Illustrated Storting and Dramatic News.) Sib, -The real Danger of the Streets is not the hansom when it is going fast-- on whom the writer of the article with this heading is rather down 'but when it is crawling. We pay a high price for the sake of gaining a few minutes iu covering a certain distance if our driver must not go at a pace that will take us to our ...

... CYCLING IN PRANCE. [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sportiny atld Dramatic Ecios SIR,-- As considerable misapprehension appears to exist in the minds of the general public as to the formalities which fourteen selected players, with the manager, Major B. Wardill, who is accompanied by Mrs. Wardill, left Adelaide on the Ormuz on Thursday, March 23rd. Another lady in Mrs. Gregory, wife of that ...

... . (To the Editor of Tim Illustrated Sportixu and Dramatic News). DEAR SIR.-- As wherrying in Norfolk seems to be be coming-- and justly- a very popular amusement, and some of your readers may be trying it before long, it may interest them to be warned of the kind of courtesy they may meet with from local vachtsmen. About a fortnight ago our wherry came into Yarmouth through Breydon water. ...

... Sir, In the notice of Westgate-on-Sea in last week's number of the Sporting and Dramatic News, it is stated that it was planned by Mr. W. Corbett; this is an error which should be corrected. Long before Mr. Corbett purchased the estate of Mr. H. D. Mertens, of Street Court. Dlans had been carefully prepared by Mr. C. N. Beazley for laying out the land for building purposes, with the ...

... Sib, I herewith send you an account of an accident that happened to me some time since, thinking it might be of interest to your readers also to those who had to do with the horse before he came to Natal. Morning Star is by Parmesan out of Wild Elower, and won the 23rd Triennial Stakes in 1876, being then the property of Mr. W. S. Crawfurd, and was ridden byT. Challoner, and was imported to ...

... Sib, Permit me to state that the object in having the screw rowel pin in the spur, recommended by me for the use of ladies in your number of Nov. 13th, is in order to enable the wearers to use a mild or a severe rowel, according to the requirements of the horses they ride. I am very much against very sharp Bpurs for ladies (or gentlemen either), unless they are abso lutely required hut from ...

... . To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. My deae Rapiee. We ought to hunt all the year round, and eight days a week at that, said a keen and hard-riding acquaintance to me once. But, alas such is not the lot of mankind and occasionally very occasionally, I hope the scale turns in the opposite direction and the week comes when a man must hunt a very little or not at all. ...

... . Sir, I cordially endorse the remarks oontained in last week's issue on an article written by a Mr. M. Jephson in the Temple Far magazine. It is to be regretted that this gentleman should think fit to adopt such a mode of ventilating what he no doubt considers a grievance though the hulk of the public will agree with you in regarding it as a contingency which might reason ably be expected ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. TUITION IN SWIMMING. (To the Editor o/Tur Illustrated Sport i no asd Dramatic News.) Deae Sib, Now, when so many non-swimmers bave returned, or are about to return, frcm the seaside, where they have, no doubt, envied those who seemed as much at home in the water as out of it, permit me to point out bow tbey can easily acquire the accomplishment, if tbey will attend one of the ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. SHAKSPEARE AIEA10RIAL, STRATFORD-ON-AVON. To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Dear Sir, I have read with astonishment your remarks upon the Shakspeare Memorial at Stratford-on-Avon, in which you say that at the annual meeting of- the Alemorial Association a statement was made which, in the absence of any explanation, not a little surprised us. I ...

... . Sir, In the face of the current cant which never tires of harp ing loosely upon the continuous and rapid decline of the British Drama, a plain statement of facts m iy perhaps not be unavailing in removing haziness of conception. During the theatrica1 season of the year 1778 no less than thirty-one pieces were produced at the three leading houses of the time-- the Haymarket, Drury Lane, and ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. (To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Dear Sir, I confess that I have paid more attention to col lecting pictorial illustrationsjto Shakspearethan in bewildering my poor skull by endeavouring to discover some latent images in Shakspeare's plays with regard to the political meaning which he wished to be attached to some of them. Throughout my life I ...