... Sir, In your controversy on the subject of 4 4 Foxes in Trees I must unhesitatingly join with 44 Baron Munchausen, who dis believes in the existence of foxes capable of such eccentricity, against 44 A Constant Reader, who fancies that he has seen such an unlikely sight for I would not of course impute deliberate misstatement to any gentleman. Whether he has seen a squirrel, or whether what ...

... Sir, I have read with considerable amusement, and so I doubt not have many others, the letter in your issue of to day, signed 44 Baron Munchausen, on the subject of foxes in trees, in which your correspondent ridicules in no measured terms the idea of such a reversal, as he seems to think, of the urovisions of nature, siinplv I suppose because he has not seen the extraordinary ft) phenomenon ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. RACING IN THE WEST INDIES. TRINIDAD. To the Editor of Tun Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Sir, An account from a visitor's point of view of the winter meeting, which took place on the 28th and 29th of December last on the Savannah outside Port of Spain, may not be unin teresting to your readers, differing so entirely as it does in many respects from such as they see at ...

... . Sir, This being the time of year at which horses are clipped, owners will perhaps allow me to point out to them that in many cases the clipping is done too late in the season, and that the middle of November is usually the latest time at which the winter coat should he shortened If the coat is not clipped after the above-mentioned time, it will have grown by the end of December to a ...

... . To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, You have more than once extended to me the hospitality of your columns, and I am going to ask you once more for a little space, hoping I am not presumptuous. I am a regular frequenter of the theatres, almost as regular as the professional critics, and I want to express what i believe is the general opinion of the pit on plays ...

... MR. 0. L. ICENNEY. Chaeles Lamb Kenney, whose death has been announced, was a son of the late James Kenney, the dramatist, and a godson of Charles Lamb. He commenced his literary career at nineteen as assistant foreign editor, dramatic critic, and scientific reporter on the Times, simultaneously contributing to magazines and writing plays for the Lyceum, Princess's, Hayinarket, and Adelphi, in ...

... From JAMES HOWARD, BsqT Clapham Park, Bedfordshire, January 2, 1880. Dear Sirs, When, some months since, you asked my opinion of the BOTANIC FLAVOURER I withheld it for I have hitherto looked with a good deal of suspicion upon all such compounds, and was therefore desirous of giving yours a thorough trial before express ing any opinion-- favourable or otherwise. I have now great pleasure in ...

... . Shi, We have just had a little dramatic excitement in Malta, owing to the performance of the Garrison Dramatic Society at the Opera House. The pieces selected for the occasion were Under the Rose and Old Soldiers. The first piece I was a little bit late for, but from what I saw of the comedietta I was not sorry that I had missed a considerable portion. The dialogue and action were very ...

... . Sir, A paragraph which appears in your issue of May nth, stating that the Greenwich Theatre is again closed, is wholly without foundation. At considerable expense the theatre has been renovated and re-decorated, was opened by me on the 20th of April, has never been closed since, nor is there any intention of closing it. By correcting this in your next issue you will oblige. Sir, vours. &c.. ...

... . Dear Sir,-- Permit mc to draw your attention- to a slight mis take in your last impression of The Illustrated Sporting axd Dramatic News. In a notice of Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's entertainment, your critic speaks (and speaks favourably) of a Mr. Law in the part of Diggles. Now I am not a jealous man hi such matters, and had the criticism been adverse Mr. Law might have retained the credit ...

... t Enclosure 1 Having road and heard of the serious accident which has befallen Mr. Joseph Osborne, which at a very advanced age has resulted in the practical failure of his eyesight, it occurs to me that it becomes almost a duty oil the part of the many interested in horse-breeding who have benefited by the information and perseverance with which he has year after year tabulated tlie pedi ...

... . [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic AYir-s.] Sir, From spins I obtained personally from Spa, com mencing May 5th, 1897, and working them out on paper by the Ten Days at Monte Carlo system, the scheme runs all right for twelve days, the highest stake being 5; hut on the fourth day from this, commencing again, I get as high as 10 stake, making 450 points out, when I did ...