... . Sir, --In your issue of the nth January there is a letter from the writer of the article upon Bearing Reins, containing the fol lowing I venture to say that those persons who hold that the muscles of the horse's neck are strengthened by the necessitated action induced by the bearing-rein, do not forget that most muscles are used by momentary woik, then a similar period of rest, the woik and ...

... . Sir,- I have read with much pleasure the most interesting series of letters that have appeared in your paper on the subject of Foxes in Trees.' I could have sent you one or two instances from personal observation, hut think that when so undeniable an authority as the Duke of Beaufort has spoken there is no more to be said. It occurs to me, however, that you may he able and perhaps willing to ...

... . [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, I have just been reading the correspondence in your paper about the Flying-Cage Trick, performed by Mr. De Vere, at Cremorne. As I am well acquainted with the manner of doing it, having performed it frequently as an amateur, with an empty cage, I can endorse what South Kensington says on the matter. I believe it is just ...

... THE SITAKSPEARE COMMEMORATION THEATRE. [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, I was glad to see in your this week's impression the pro test of Mr. W: S.. Raleigh against the proposed Shakspeare Theatre at Stratford. I have always considered it a false movement to erect a com memoration theatre at Stratford, a purely agricultural town, affording but few attractions ...

... . c jn a letter, which you had the kindness to publish on the lh October, I replied to a statement contained in an editorial tide of the 21st September, concerning the cause of carriage- j'r tossing their heads when harnessed with bearing-reins. In tl° above-mentioned article it is contended that the muscles hich raise the head and neck of a horse may be so strengthened hv constant use-- the ...

... . (To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News -7 Sir, In The Tatter (No. 24), the following is the account given for the use of this word It had its rise from an accident in the Town of Bath in the reign of King Charles the Second. It happened that on a public day a celebrated beauty was in the Cross bath, and one of the crowd of her admirers took a glass of the water ill ...

... . {To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, Noticing the appeal of the Birmingham Cart Horses I am desired to address you on behalf of the Birmingham Carriage Horses, and to beg urgently that you will lift up your voice in then- favour. Too many of them suffer from the terrible Bearing-Rein which is the skeleton in the stable of many a carefully tended carriage horse. ...

... . {To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, It has occurred to me that a, good knowledge of the Openings might be derived ill a' more' interesting and satisfactory way than that now offered in the several theoretical treatises 011 the game lately published. If a selection of the great games of past arid living masters were arranged, according to their several Openings ...

... t To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Dear Sir--I cannot admit that your correspondent Exon, or my nameless assailant (whose letter you this week insert), has proved that I did anything contraiy to cricket law, when I batted for a man who had only fielded for a portion of an innings, and was not forthcoming on the day. What I did was at the joint request of the ...

... 'To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic ISewsJ Sir,-- Some twenty years back, when the Queen and Prince Albert gave their theatrical entertainments at Windsor Castle, under the superintendence of the late Charles Kean, Pier Majesty commanded that all married actresses should be advertised in the playbills only under their married names. Others, besides my self, thought at the ...

... . (To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.,/ Sir, I was perfectly astounded to see some statistics, quoted from a contemporary, in your paper last Saturday, in which Blair Athol's stock were said to have won only ,£1,900 odd up to the end of June. As this is utterly incorrect, I trust you will insert this letter. I know well that the writers to your paper are not actuated ...

... . (To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, In your issue of this day, Mr. De Vere in his reply to mine inserted in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of the 8th inst. and signed South Kensington states that his odject in writing is to distinctly deny the truth of the writer's false assertion. I scarcely know the meaning of such a denial, unless it is that ...