... . (To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, In your last issue, your dramatic critic, after lavishing an unusual amount of notice upon an amateur performance given at St. George's Theatre on the 30th December last, in aid of the widow and orphans of the late Frederick Barnard, appears firstly to have fallen into error as regards names, and, secondly, to have been self ...

... Sir, Referring to your number of the Illustrated Sport ing and Dramatic News, of the 20th ult., respecting an extraordinary occurrence at Crowle, Lincolnshire. I think it due to myself to say that I am in no way concerned in the ex traordinary occurrence in question, and that the only other practising solicitor in the town is a young gentleman of the name of Burtonshaw, recently admitted, ...

... . Sir, My attention has been drawn to an article which appeared in your valuable journal a few weeks' since in answer to some strictures upon the influence of the stage and dramatic perform ances, uttered by a clerical gentleman rejoicing in the rank of LL.D. Before going into any observations upon the subject immediately concerned The Influence of the Stage allow me to say that one thing is ...

... AN IRISHMAN'S OPINION OF THE OUEEN OF CONNAUGITT. Sir, No answer appeared to that foolish leper by the author of the Queen of Connaught in the Daily Telegraph for the simple reason that it was not published. I am not the only Irishman who deeply resented the libel thrown upon the whole nation by this startlingly original play. The more so, as being somewhat behind the scenes, so to speak, ...

... MR. BARNES'S JOSEPH SURFACE, AND MPs.. BANCROFT. {To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, In answer to a paragraph in your paper of this date, with reference to a letter I am stated to have written to Mr. Barnes, concerning his performance of Joseph Surface, at the Gaiety Theatre, will you allow me space in your next issue to say that I have never addressed a ...

... Sir, May I ask your permission to transfer from Mr. Weatherly to myself your censure on the two ungrammatical lines in fhp ahnvp inn cr. T renret to sav that I alone am resnonsible for :he mistake, having with Mr. Weatherly's permission, and at the ast moment, altered part of the third verse in order to meet, as it seemed to me. an exigency in the music. Apologising for tres passing on your ...