... HENBY JAMES BYBON. [To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sie, Following up my chat about Henry J. Byron, I proceed to mention our now intimate relations. I used to visit and dine with him often, and seldom with a third person present. Here is one letter My dear B you will dine with me at the 'Westminster' at 5 o'clock, or perish in the attempt. He was managing the ...

... . To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. My deae Rapiee. We ought to hunt all the year round, and eight days a week at that, said a keen and hard-riding acquaintance to me once. But, alas such is not the lot of mankind and occasionally very occasionally, I hope the scale turns in the opposite direction and the week comes when a man must hunt a very little or not at all. ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. TUITION IN SWIMMING. (To the Editor o/Tur Illustrated Sport i no asd Dramatic News.) Deae Sib, Now, when so many non-swimmers bave returned, or are about to return, frcm the seaside, where they have, no doubt, envied those who seemed as much at home in the water as out of it, permit me to point out bow tbey can easily acquire the accomplishment, if tbey will attend one of the ...

... COEEESPONDENCE. IN SUSPENSE. To the Editor of The Illustbated Sporting and Dbamatic News. SIR,-- Accidents in the hunting-field have been too numerous this season not to have attracted .public attention, and the number of ladies who have suffered from the zeal with which they followed the sport has also been above the yearly average. The state of the country during the first half of the winter ...

... . To the Editor of The Illdsteated Spoetino and Deamatio News. Sie, Accidents in the hunting-field have been too numerous this 'season not to have attracted .public attention, and the number of ladies who have suffered from the zeal with which they followed the sport has also been above the yearly average. The state of the country during the first half of the winter, and the openness of the ...

... 8ib, Tn dramatic criticisms the principal feature alluded to istheartiS'es' concept on of the part. Now, this is very well, provided there is any conception. Are not Messrs. Prosody snd Cresent alwar Mr. Prosody and Mr.Cresentin all plays nor are they different from five-aighths of the pro fession Why not acknowledge i hat voice and other physical qualifications are far in advance of brains ...

... Bib,-- Mr. Old Theatre-goer has been kind enough to enlighten me so much of late that, like Oliver Taift, I would fain cry for more. A certain phase of acting has always appeared to me as a description of mental -.restitution-- that is to say, where the display of pathos or any kind of feeling is requisite. This view may be considered by some as morbid, though, as a matter of fact, I fail to ...

... Dear Sir, In your last week's issue of The Stage, I notice a paragraph referricg to the frequent comolaints of actors and actresses in Russia !*eing defrauded of their earnings by insolvent managers, and in consequence of which the authorities have taken the matter in hand. Now, as in this country also such cases are ever frequent, cannot some thing be done here to at leat lessen such affairs ...

... Sib,-- In your notico of the Lesson of Love in last week's Stage, you mention Miss Rosa Hyde as having played in the pieco. This is from no fault of your corre spondent, but owing to the programme. I shall feel greatly obliged by your correcting this, as the part was played by-- Yours faithfully, Constance FETHERSTONHAUGH. Theatre Royal, Wolverhampton, July 5th. ...

... DYKWYNKYN SIR,--I venture to crava your permission to make an appeal for help on behalf of Mr. Richard Wynne Keene, professionally known as Dykwynkyn. .ia 7* y**n oT**> of great distress, and is Buffering from Paralysis, from which it is fetred he can never tl° u! profewion, and to mjst or the play, going public, his name is familiar as a household word. ,°r Pr,0 ...

... DEAR SIR,--Don't you think in this discussion about hissing at theatres a mountain has been made out of a molehill? The affair at the Lyceum could not bo called a demonstration. If Mr. Irving had not noticed it nobody else would. One can quite understand that the unaccustomed sound of a hiss might astonish and even fret him under the Circumstances, but all who were present on our side of the ...

... THE FRENCH MARRIAGE LAWS. Dbab Silt,-- SeeinR a play on the above subject announced for production at the But. dard Theatre, 1 enolose you a notice from your own paper on a tieco of mine produced about two years ajjo, ontit^ed Broken Links in which you will Derceive the central idea to be that. A wife in England is no wife in France.--Yours, &c., HENRY HOLMES, Sadlers Wells, N. ...