... Sir, Many readers of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News hope that, in your very interesting letters upon Ladies on Horseback, you will touch fully on the most important thing, viz., the ladies' horse. One sees ladies riding all sorts some too big, some too small, some good shoulders and no backs, others just the reverse; not one out of twenty what it ought to be. Also, up to what ...

... ROAD -MAKING. To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir,-- The roads in and about the metropolis have for many years been in a very unsatisfactory state. The mode of making and repairing them has been such as to render them uneven, thus causing carriages to be injured by being jolted, and the horses' feet to be hurt by the large and sharp stones. The cause of this has ...

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... . To the Editor of the Stage Directort. Sir Would you allow me to make a few sugges tions Your paper is likely to prove of so much value to the Dramatic pretension, that in the name of several members of the musical profession, I wish to add, if possible, to its already UHeful character. What I mean is this the orchestra of theatres have no organ (of course 1 nicau paper), at present there ...

... . Sir, In one of the late numbers of your valuable paper in the Athletics, &c., column you published the large score made by the East Melbourne C.C. against a Tasmanian Eleven in November 1879, viz., 742, a score which occupied three days in being made, so that the Tasmanians had not a chance to bat. It may be of interest to you to know that in the return match between the East Melbourne Team ...

... Sie, I have been very greatly interested by the remarks on saddles, spurs, &c., made by your lady correspondents. my nusDana is a large rancnero, or cattle larmer, on tne Rio Grande, between Mexico and Texas, and naturally I have had much experience of hard as well as long distance riding. Having been accustomed to hunting when I was a girl, 1 came out here with an exaggerated idea of my skill ...

... . SIR,-- This London of ours is becoming a very polyglot and cosmopolitan resort and home of the drama. London attracts to itself all foreign dramatic talent; and a Londoner may see, in his own city, all the best European artists and all the different styles and schools of acting. Not only has London the operas which, once Italian, have now become European, hut we have had also, acting for us ...

... LADIES ON TIOBSEBACK. [To the Editor of Tun Illustbated Scouting and Dramatic News.) SIR,-- My papers entitled Ladies on Horseback have called forth many letters. Some of these you have printed, some have been forwarded to me from your office, and many have been received at my own house. I shall regard it as a favour if you will permit me to reply to a few of them through the medium of your ...

... Sir,-- The recently-invented lady's spur, mentioned in your last issue by Mabel Florence Bayne, was patented towards the close of the last century, and illustrations of it, and of other sours on the same nrincinle. can he seen at the Patent. Office. Sir,-- The recently-invented lady's spur, mentioned in your last issue by Mabel Florence Bayne, was patented towards the close of the last ...

... . (To the Editor of The Illustrated Sportixg and Dramatic News. Sxe) I have read with keen interest the article on Ladies on Horseback in your last number. I find several_ things in it which differ from my preconceived ideas, but it is impossible not to perceive that the writer, Mrs.1 Power O'Donoghue, speaks from an experience which makes her an undoubted authority. With reference to safety ...

... . To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sib, In your paper of last week I notice a letter on the advis ability of ladies on horseback adopting the cross saddle in place of the side, that is to say, in plain English, ride astride. This I have done abroad when far beyond conventional bondage, and it is incomparably better. Your correspondent points out the evils resulting ...