... . (2V> the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting i and Dramatic News.) Dear Sir, With regard to the flattering notice you gave to the exponent of the character of Miss Ashley in A Shadow on the Hearth, played at the Crystal Palace on Monday, 21st, I should feel obliged if you would notice- in your next issue that it was not played, as stated on the programmes and by your representative, by Miss ...

... CORRESPONDENCE HELP FOR THE Pnm? To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic Sir,-- Those of us who for twenty years have lived and 1 f' amongst the people, are naturally conversant with tli ri'1' I regret to have to give it as my testimony that there''1''0'13' indication of our being confronted with an alarmi* eVCI^ appalling amount of genuine honest poverty and ri tU1 ...

... . (To the Editor of Tub Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.> Dear Sib, Will you allow me, in justice to Mr. Carl Rosa, to correct a mis-statement which appears in the biographical notice of me in your last issue Nordisa was not commissioned in consequence of the success of the Bridal of Triermain on the contrary, it was ordered eight months before, when I was- yet lingering in comparative ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY THOROUGHBRED STALLION SHOW. {To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Dear Sir, It may be of interest to your readers to know that nearly forty thoroughbred stallions have been entered to compete for the five premiums of £200 each, with gold medal, to be given by the Royal Agricultural Society at its newly inaugurated Spring Show ...