... . [To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, In your last number, at the end of a rather too flatter ing mention of my musical achievements, I find that you say the articles in the World of which I am the reputed author are judged hy people jn general, and by yourself, to he written with excessive bitterness and severity. With all due deference to the writer of the ...

... . 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 ...

... ARE .THERE MANY SUCH? {To the Editor of The Illubteated Sportino and Dramatic News.) Sir, I do not often visit theatres not because I fail to enjoy myself, however. A great misfortune it is to he 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 ...

... 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 ...