... [To the Editor op the Illustrated Sportixg and Dramatic News.) Sir, The owner of a prize donkey near Shrewsbury lias in vented a collar for it which is a great improvement on the common one. The collar and harness are in one piece, and the collar opens 011 a hinge at the bottom where the hames usually open, so that, instead of slipping it over the animal's head, it is put on its neck, as the ...

... . {To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, I have read with great interest B. W.'s article on Cricket Reform in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of September 13, but am surprised not to find any allusion to the numerous extraordinary specimens of bowling analysis, curiosities in which appear to me to have been remark ably frequent in recent first-class ...

... . (To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, Your correspondent, A Gentleman Jockey, must be a very clever man, although his spelling is somewhat indifferent. He is also a peculiar man, for he likes capped hocks. Clean legs, too, arc objectionable to him. He is, moreover, a terrible man, for he threatens to drop his subscription. When the Gentleman Jockey's ...

... . To the Editor of the. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, For the last few weeks I have been reading with great in terest the correspondence on the above subject from. Mr. De Vere, Amateur, and South Kensington. Commencing with the letter -which appeared in the issue of July 8, in which South Kensington describes the cage as being constructed with steel bars and sharp edges, ...

... C0tTf.t>pilitatCC. [The fact of the insertion of any letter in these columns does not neces sarily imply our concurrence in the views of the writers, nor can we hold ourselves responsible for any opinions that may be expressed therein.] To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir,-- As a shareholder in the Alhambra Company, and as the writer of the letter annexed to the ...

... on o fact of the insertion of any letter in these columns does not neces sarily imply our concurrence in the views of the writers, nor can we bold ouiselves responsible for any opinions that may he expressed therein.] To the Editor of the Illustrated SroBTiKQ and Dramatic News.) Calcutta, March 22, 1870. e jfy attention has just been drawn to a picture in your of Oct. 2. 1875, entitled tlio ...

... . [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 ...

... . [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 ...

... . (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 ...