... . SOME LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. BOGUS'S BUFFER. Sib, For some months past many able articles have appeared in your valuable paper in which the abuses of the profession have been discussed. Will you allow me to call attention to one which up to the present I have not seen mentioned 1 refer to the practice now growing prevalent of a so-called responsible manager running his company in his wife's ...

... SURGICAL HOME FOR CHILDREN. ukak oir, isariv in the new year we are opening a small Surgical Home for Diseases of Children. The children must lie poor children, and inay be of either MX, their cases such us call for surgical treatment (preference will be i/ivt-n to primary operations), and their ages mint not lie under throe years or over fourteen years. As the generotltv of n lad v is ...

... . DEAR SIR,--I do not know whether the suggestion I am about to put forward has been mooted in your columns before, but, if so, perhaps my mite in the collection of ideas upon the subject of an Actors' Guild may not bo entirely without value. Anyone who knows the provinces well, and who chooses to make a calculation for himself, will discover that the number if touring companies now upon the ...

... . Dear Sib.-- In last week's issue of Thk Stage my name was mentioned In cast of Croydon i antomini'\ It ii a mistak I j am engaged (since M iy) by Mr. Sidney Cooper, for Robin- son Crusoe, Court, Wigan.--I am, yours faithfully, DOLLY HARMER, Court Theatre, Wigan, December 10, 1890. ...

... . Dear Sir --Kindly allow me to correct the statement with regard to the scenerv it is being pointed by Mr.Ht-nry Emdem, and not by Mr. Wane, though he has. .is you state painted picture in tne act drop.--Yours truly, WALTER EMDEN 105 and 106, Strand, London. W.C., Decemeber 13 1890. ...

... .'11,-swme five weeks beck I was commissioned by a well- known London actor to write a modern drain a for him, the title to be Darkest IxrnOon. His full instructions have been carried out. The MS. is, or w 11 be iu a day or *o, at the Ix>rd Chamberlain s OfHce. When it will le produced rests with its proprietor. My only reason for troubling you with this letter is through my seeing last Week a ...

... . Sir, Will you allow me to correct a paragraph in your provincial items of last week? The acting-manager and treasurer of the Royal Opera House, Leicester for the last ten years of Mr. Elliot Galer's management was yours truly, FRANK BURGESS. 4, Farnham-street, Leicester. ...

... To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Sir, Among your illustrations in last Saturday's Illmtratcd Sporting and Dramatic Notes is one which describes the process of searching for water by the rod. It may interest some of your readers to learn that this device is not unknown in the Canadian North-west, where a twig of peach or willow is often used for the purpose, a peach ...

... OUR IIORSES. Tjie Editor of the Illustrated N porting and Dramatic News. Sir, I rejoice to observe that the Tress lias at last taken note of the monstrous cruelty daily inflicted upon our dumb servants, the unfortunate horses of this Metropolis, as evidenced by your feeling article on the subject of street pavement. Al most hourly I am witness of the disgraceful condition of London Bridge, and ...

... . The Editor of the Illustrated Sperling and Dramatic News. Dear Sir, I am so pleased to see that your valuable paper is taking up the cause of the poor horses. Don't you think it would be possible to send a petition to the Lord Mayor and also to some local West End authorities to have the asphalt and wood pavements yiell sprinkled all over in slippery and wet weather I can't help thinking if ...

... THE MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN- SHIRE RAILWAY AND LORDS' GROUND. The Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Silt, This Company intend to apply to Parliament for a Bill to enable them to extend their line to London, and in doing this are anxions to obtain a small portion of Lords' Ground, viz., part of the so-called Nursery or Practice Ground, where thoy would construct a ...

... ^ me following letter nas oeen auuresseu to tile Press Sin,-- As reports have appeared in several newspapers wV if uncontradicted, aro calculated to ereato a totally el- impression of the true state of the facts with reference theatre, and to do our clients, Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt the injury in their profession, we should feel obliged if you allow us, through the medium of your valuable paper to ...