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PROPOSED STATUE TO IZAAK WALTON IN WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL

... PROPOSED STATUE TO IZAAK AVALTON IN AYIX- CHESTER CATHEDRAL. (To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, Doubtless many of your readers are anglers, and I ven ture to ask for a short space in your columns to inform them that the Arery Rev. Dr. Kitchin, Dean of AVinchester, has pro mised to find a niche for a statue of Izaak AValton in the great screen of the Cathedral ...

To the Editor of THE ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS

... To the Editor o/The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic Naws.) Sir, I beg to draw your kind attention to the statement made generally by Ihe press, including your journal, in the notices of my comedy The Jilt, wherein I am accused of ignorance end blunder in representing a woman riding and winning a steeplechase, as such an incident was ridiculously impossible. Feeling satisfied that many ladies ...

To the Editor of the ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS..

... (To the Editor of the Illustbated Spoetino and Dramatic News.) Sib, I have just read the account by Falcon of Mr. Gosling's Hounds in your last issue. Will you kindly in fair ness to Mr. Gosling correct one or two errors At the end of last season, no gentleman being forthcoming by the middle of May to hunt the whole country, Mr. Gosling consented to hunt the Monday and Wednesday country. ...

CORRESPONDENCE: BACCARAT IN PARIS

... CORRESPONDENCE. BACCARAT IN PARIS. (To the Editor o/ The Illustrated Spouting and Dramatic News. Sir, In conclusion of an otherwise flattering notice of my article in this month's Fortnightly Review on Parisian Hells, you state that: Mr. Delille thinks that this decadence (i.e. the present condition of Paris) is owing to baccarat, which is, of course, nonsense. To think that baccarat, in ...

WHERRYING IN NORFOLK

... . (To the Editor of Tim Illustrated Sportixu and Dramatic News). DEAR SIR.-- As wherrying in Norfolk seems to be be coming-- and justly- a very popular amusement, and some of your readers may be trying it before long, it may interest them to be warned of the kind of courtesy they may meet with from local vachtsmen. About a fortnight ago our wherry came into Yarmouth through Breydon water. ...

CHESS CHAT

... . I have j ust received the following letter from Sheriff S j enr, of Glasgow, and have much pleasure in commending it to the attention of our readers Glasgow, 3. Westbourne Gardens. Dear Sir, I beg to bring under your notice the propo-ed testimonial to Mr. G. 13. Fraser, of Dundee, on account of his great services to chess. As a chess analyst and the discoverer of many important and ...