... . To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, Will you allow me to call attention to one of the peculiar customs in the Chess-world at Purssell's, most of the players being altogether unknown by their ordinary names The following is an account of an evening's play On enter ing the room, I found His Lordship, with his private chess-board, anxiously looking out for a ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. ENGLISH SPORTSMEN IN NORWAY. {To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News., Sir, My attention has been called to a paragraph in your issue of the 27th July, I think (I cannot be quite certain of the date), under Circular Notes, in which you quote from a writer in the Dagbladet alluding to English sportsmen in Norway, that at Carlo (in the district of Tromo) a ...

... . [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, I have seen in your estimable paper of the 26th August an account of a medal which I have just engraved for the festival at Bayreuth, and which you have considered worthy of reproducing by an engraving. In the text you say that it is made by a Germaa artist. As I wish to preserve my Belgian nationality, I should feel ...

... . SrR, In reading the notice given of me in The Illus trated Sporting and Dramatic News on Saturday I see there have been two mistakes made. It was the character of Rollo (Ranquo) not Malcolm I plaved in tile opera Biorn at the Queen's Theatre. Also, it was Miss Violet Cameron who played Germaine, not Miss Kate Munroe. whose place I have taken at the Globe Theatre. Will you kindly correct the ...

... . Sir, There is an earlier mention of the extravagant fiction of frozen sounds lhan those which you quoted in your recent reply to W. C. D. In Rabelais' Pantagrutl, chaps. 55 and 51, will be found an account Comment, en haulte mer, Pantagruel oui't diverses paroles de-gelees. The chapters are too long to be given in their entirety, but the following extracis will serve to show the author's ...

... . Sir, EnglishmeninCanadaare constantly being chaffed for their proverbial ignorance of Canadian ways, and manners, and events. A strong proof of the national failing in this way is the extraordi nary statements which appear in theEnglish papers anent Canadian matters, and even The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News is not free from them. I enclose two cuttings from your issues of the 12th ...

... . Sik, Among your admirable illustrations last week I noticed a picture of an Indian bear in hot pursuit of a missionary, which is stated to represent a true incident. I have myself been in the unpleasant position of being forced to stand the charge of a wounded bear, and I have seen and shot them both in India and elsewhere. But 1 was under the impression that the black bears of the East ...

... THE MOURNING MUSE. Sir, Permit mo state that the marble statue, The Mourn ing Muse, by Robert Cauer, represented in your last issue as ereoted in the cathedral at Mainz, is placed as a monument in the cemetery of that city on the grave of Frau Commercieu- rath Schrott, a lad}r who was a munificent patron of art, and whose death the mourning muse is represented as bewailing. I am, &o., Gustav ...

... . (To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, I have read with great interest the account of West- gate-on-Sea in this week's issue of the Dramatic News, and which would be more interesting if more correct. The West- gate Estate (not Westgate-on-Sea, otherwise Marsh Bay together with the Hundred, East End, Buckington, and Que* home farms belonged to my grandfather ...

... . bra, 1 notice a letter 111 your last impression from A Sportsman on the above subject, which reminds me of an amusing circumstance that occurred within six miles of the good old city of York a few months ago. An acquaintance of mine who had not long resided in the neighbourhood was from home one night rather later than usual ou busiuess, Thinking that he knew the road pretty well, he ...

... 'A FREE STAGE. AND NO FAVOUR. IE Is it not amazing to contemplate how persons supposed to be sensible go mooning on in their hazy notions, preferring the mist to the clear daylight of facts Have we a drama or have we not I always thought that we had, and a drama, too, pre-eminent in the annals of modern history. Now, Sir, we have been the envied possessors of this glorious drama for 300 years, ...

... A FALSE STEP. Sir, No doubt you are by this time as heartily sick of the discussion on A False Step as I am, now that I find it is impossible to discuss a wide question which generally affects dramatic art without seeing it dragged through the mire of miser able personalities but you will, perhaps, allow me in my self- defence to reply briefly to the strictures of your reviewer, who has ...