... . To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Dear Sir, Will you kindly allow me to make an appeal through your columns on behalf of the sport of trotting, which has from various causes languished of late years in this country, owing to the incapacity and neglect of the late ruling body, the National Trotting Association, which stood in t lie way of reform. However, that ...

... . SOUP STALLS FOR CABMEN AND OTHERS IN THE STREETS OF LONDON. To the Editor of' The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Sir, When putting forth my Christmas appeal on behalf of the Home of Rest for Horses, I touched on the above subject, which to ray great gratification lias since been favour ably alluded to in many of the leading journals. Unfortun ately I am not in a position, unaided, ...

... UNMASKED. Dkar Sir,-- In last week's issue, Grimalkin mentions the forthcoming production of a new play called Unmasked. One of my dramas, produced at the Royal Albert Hall, Jarrow, last January, bears the same name, and, as it may be taken on tour shortly, I take the liberty of drawii g Mr. Chailes Hartley's attention to the similarity of titles. I do so to give that gentleman a chance of ...

... Sir,-- Your Brighton correfpondent has made a mis-statement (which T am sure was unintentional), in consequence of his having been misinformed. Martin Byam and Byam Wjke aie not identical. I wrote the pantomime i i question, along with others, in conjunction with Mr. ityam, who is my son. I would like this etror to be rectified, as your correspondent's letter might bad to complications. ...

... IF NOT CLAIMED WITHIN SEVEN DAYS Dkar Sir. If not claimed within seven days is a melan choly phrase, which frequently nioets the eye of the poor player, ar:d sends his ho irt into his boots, provided, of course, that h> has a pair. Last week I discovered, through an advctlsoment in your columns, that myself and ft Professor Somebody had left a box at the Theatre Royal, Hetton-le- hole, ar d ...

... THE BRIGANDS. Dkar Sir,-- Will you kindly correct the statement or you Leeds correspondent, who, in criticising The Hriyandx at the Grand Theatre, writes: Misa Marie Luella delists the house in tho ballad, 4 1 oare not for the silken gown I'm wearing.' The aong was sung by me, and, in fact, was ex- nr..slv written find intrcrliuvd into the onora for me hv \fr Auguste Van Biene.-- I remain, ...

... Dkar Sir,-- May I be permitted to say that from what 1 have experienced at matim'eM, the audiences are not com posed of the regular irght playgoers, and so tho morning performance cannot rob the manager of his night audience. There is a regular day audience in London. Mr. Beer boh in- Tree knows this, and he caters for it on Wednesdays. Other managers do the same thing on Saturdays. For a man ...

... Dear Sir.-- May I ask you to insert in your next issue an account of a very perilous little adventure which occurred to Mr. Ilarrv Tebbiitt (our Tom Strutt) and myself on Saturday last, at Matlock, whero we were playing at the time a report of which seems to be going the round of the Midland papers, a cutting from one of which I encloso? Tebbutt and myself hired a light boat out for a pull on ...

... . &ir,-- i regret tnat tne announcement of my return to health is premature, and may mislead my many friends, and too early invite managerial cempotition. I am still playing the Demon Rheumatism in pantomime (with occasional words), but am much better, though far from relinquishing that proverbially distasteful rdle A Comedian on Crutches Devil on Two Sticks my enemies-- should I have any-- ...

... MY UNCLE. Dear Sia,-- In your last iasue I Hnd it stated that Miss A icy Steinberg will produce at a matinee shortly a eomedy entitled My Unci e. Will yuu afford me space to point out that the title has buen ustd bef -re, as about five yeirs airo an original three-act comedy was produced under my management at the Royal Theatre, Torquay. The title was My t/nclr.and the comedy is jointly the ...

... VOCAL EXERCISES AND BREATH-TAKING. i'kar sin,-- in your last issue I have read with much interest your cutting from The. American. Mtintciaii, entitled Does it pay tostiMy singing? Tne writer very truthfully points out the many advantage* accruing, not only to those who study it as a profession, but also to those who take it up as a pistimo. Jc is almost an a :cepr,ed truism of tne present ...

... AN IMPOSSIBLE DOUBLE. Drar Sir,-- With referenco to the obviously impossible double of Traddles and David Copperfleld at Miss Trevor's matinis, for which the programme was responsible, I beg to say the latter part was played by yours very truly, FRANK WITHERS, Theatre Royal, Halifax. LETTER TO THE EDITOR. ...