... BURLESQUING AIR. IRVING.-- AIR. ANSON'S BENEFIT. Sir, It is difficult to imagine a reason for the the indelicate caricature of an accomplished actor's recognised success, which Alessrs. Lash Gordon and G. W. Anson submitted to the public on Saturday morning, under the title of Hamlet a la mode or, Shakesperientia docet. The authors styled their joint production, an apropos absurdity. But if ...

... AIISS HENRIETTA HODSON AND AIR. W. S. GILBERT. {To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, Aliss Henrietta Hodson has thought proper to address a letter to the members of the dramatic profession, in which she de scribes certain so-called persecutions which she claims to have suffered at my hands. As I have referred the matter to my solicitors, I will not trouble you ...

... AIr. H. H. Howe to AIr. W. S. Gilbert. Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 3rd Alarch, 1877. Dear AIr. Gilbert, I was much surprised to find Aliss Hodson still under an impression that you are at fault that she is not cast Zeolide in the Palace of Truth, although I have told her you gave your consent that she might play the part, as you also did as to the part of Galatea in Pygmalion. The real truth of ...

... . [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, On Thursday the 22nd ult. the boxing competition foi the Marquis of Queensberry's cup came oft' at Lillie Bridge and j was extremely surprised to find that in the bout between Winn and Francis the judges gave their decision in favour of the lattei gentleman, although every sporting paper 1 have seen states thai Winn had by ...

... AIr. J. B. Buckstone to AIr. W. S. Gilbert. Lower Sydenham, 1 Sth Feb., 1877. My Dear Gilbert, When Aliss Hodson was engaged by me [it was] for the present season, which terminates on the 1st of June next, at which date I have sub-let the theatre to Mr. J. S. Clarke for three months. She could not think, neither does she think, that you have acted in opposition, in any way, to her interests, ...

... . Sir, Having seen an article in your paper of the 7th of this month, under the head of Turfiana, in reference to the action of M'Corkill v. Corscaden, in which the facts are not fairly ot truly stated in justice to myself I have been forced to take up my pen to give you and your readers a correct account of the affair. It is not my intention to go through the whole history ol this .case, ...