... Sir, There is one point to which I should like to call the attention of the writer of the able and interesting articles on Ladies on Horseback, which she appears to have altogether overlooked in her enumeration of the articles of a lady's riding attire. It is the use of a spur by lady equestrians. The recently invented lady's spur consists of one sharp point so con structed as not to injure ...

... MUSIC IN ENGLAND.-- No. IX. (To the Editor of The Illustrated Spouting and Dramatic News.) Sir, -The remarks I had occasion to make last week on the local examinations in music, conducted under the auspices of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and Trinity College, which will now be supplemented by the recently instituted examinations (for diplomas and certificates) of the Royal Aoademy ...

... Sie, If you will kindly afford me the hospitality of your columns, I should be glad, as an unimportant unit of the play- going world, to offer my congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft on their arrival in their new and splendid house, and to express to them my warmest sympathy on the disgraceful events of Saturday. I am sure that I speak on behalf of a very large class of the playgoing ...

... Sir, I do not know what view you take about Saturday's business at the Haymarket, but from the amount of common sense usually displayed iu your columns I feel tolerably certain that you agree with mo, and consider the riot that occurred entirely disgraceful to its originators, for I cannot see how another view is to be defended. When I go into a shop for a pound of Bohea and the grocer only ...

... . FEENCH PLAYS. [To the Editor o/Tiie Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Deae Bapiee, You can well understand that it is hardly likely that I should enter into paper warfare with Mr. Baumann upon points of difference profoundly uninteresting to the general public, but I must beg leave to mention that I have seen, in French, performances of all the pieces to which I alluded. If any ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. IRISH DISTRESS FUND. (To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Dear Sir, I sball be most happy to co-operate with your Captious Critic in his admirable suggestion of a benefit in aid of the Irish Distress Eund. A performance might, I should think, be very easily managed at one of the so-called National Theatres by selections from the different London ...

... Sir, In case no one more able than myself answers Hersilie's letter in this week's number of your valuable paper, will you allow me, in the name of many lady riders who can use the side-saddle, to write and protest against the idea cropping up of our riding like men I cannot help feeling justly indignant with those who try to introduce such a radical change, for, surely, we are already too ...

... Sie, In your issue of the 27th November my letter appeared, recommending that the use of side-saddles should be discon- tinued. X our correspondent, J acic epur, mentions, m a letter published on the 13th November, that in some works con cerning the Sandwich Islands, in the Northern Paoifio Ocoan, and the Rocky Mountains, North America, the authoress, Miss Isabella L. Bird, states that she was ...

... . ITa the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) SIR,-- Since I have come to London I have been asked so many questions respecting the reason why ladies so often pull then horses, that I feel I may accomplish some good by answer ing, or may at least assist in doing away with a very crying evil. My opinion is that there is usually but one reason, viz., because the horses pull ...

... ARE .THERE MANY SUCH? To the Editor oj The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sie, I do not often visit theatres not because I fail to enjoy myself, however. A great misfortune it is to be incapable of sitting still one from which I suffer. It is granted me to see an act of many plays, but seldom the beginning, and scarcely ever the end. I have friends, however, in the profession, who ...

... . SIB) Will you allow me to mention in your paper the way in which a Glasgow critic writes of The Captive, which Miss Ellen Terry recited last week at the Gaiety Theatre? He calls it a wrefolied piece of Btuff, only fit for a halfpenny show. Surely it stands to reason that Miss Terry would not waste her time in studying a poem only fit for a halfpenny show. I must say that coining as it ...

... Sir, Continuing my remarks on this subject, I am bound to say that your contributor gives sufficient answer to the question of the safety stirrup in explaining that the objection is removed providing the inner slirrup is large enough for the foot to he eatilv extricated the stirrup beiu a made in three different sizes. this is a matter easily adjusted. Sir, Continuing my remarks on this ...