... A CORRECTION. Sir,-- Your notioe of my ontertainment at the Royal, Dumfries, last week would con vey the impression that I formed one of a company engaged by the Weal management, whereas tho company was one engaged by me, and I shared in the usual way. It was a large and expensive company (no less than fifteen turns) or I should not have troubled vou with this letter. You will bo pleased to ...

... Sir, Would you accept my shilling in aid of defraying expenses of printing re the Union of Scenic Artists, as suggested by 44 Fitch in your valuable paper P My utmost thanks to vou. for we owe vou a lot. Your obedient servant, W. D. HOBBS, Scenic Artist. Morton's, Greenwich, S.E. THE SHILLING FUND. Fitch Is. Plumb Is. W. 1). Hobbs Is. ...

... . SPEECH TO THE AMATEURS. On Tuesday the Maidenhead A.D.C. entertained their prosident, Sir Henry Irving, at dinner. Mr. H. W. Lawson occupied the chair, and in a company of about 120 were Sir George Russell, M.P., Mr. W. H. Grenfell, Sir Douglas Straight, the Rev. A. H. Drummond (vicar of All Saints, Boyne Hill), the Rev. C. A. Raymond (vicar of Bray), Mr. Bram Stoker, Mr. J. Bugdon (Mayor ...

... Sir, I have rad with pleasure the letters proposing a bcenic Artists Uninn. It seems to mo to be exactly what is greatly needed. If the idea can be put into shape I, as a scenic artist iu London and elsewhere for some sixteen years, should be pleased to do my best in forwarding the matter by subscrib ing myself, and promising to get some six or seven more artists in town to do the same. You rs ...

... ADD Scenic Artist Union oik. i unnjctneatep ritcn suggested in your last issue is the only practical way of getting to a satisfactory settlement. Please add mv mite. Th&nkinc vou in anticipation, Yours faithfully, PLUMB. ...

... SCENIC ARTISTS. SIR,--The increasing warmth of feeling upon the scenic question, which has been so ably and kindly taken up by you, to my mind only tends to point out the growing necessity for the proposed union to be formed, and that with as little delay as possible. Indeed, if not showing too much anxiety, I would ask is it not possible for the union to be formed and started sooner oven ...

... A HAMLET INCONGRUITY? Sir, There is a lino in Hamlet which, being a contradiction, deserves some little regard. Publio criticism has not, to my knowlodge, beau directed thereto. In act throe, scaue one, ocours the soliloquy, To bo or not to be. The 24th line reads thus The undiscovered country from whoso bourne no traveller returns. I submit that this lino is in direct opposition to the ...

... SIR,--I have watched with great interest the letters' in your valuable paper on this subject, which I hope will not be allowed to drop out of sight until, like the Actors' Association--inaugurated by you, I believe--the scenic artists also band themselves together into an association. I am surprised none of the London artists has come forward with offers ot assistance in tills matter. In ...

... Sir, Mr, I\ Allan Laidlaw hint, in hi, letter on this subject that somo of the old Surrey dramas which wore played under the Creswick and Shepherd rigime deserv. to be revived. Among those it may be recallod wa. The Home Wreck, by Stirling Coyne (founded on Tounyson'e Enoch Arden which was revived at tho Holborn during the snrincr season of 1873. with Mr. Oreswick in his original part.-- Yours ...

... CHECKTAKERS AND TRAVELLING MANAGERS. SIR,--Should the travelling-manager provide his own checktakers for the popular parts of the theatre? By all means he should, say I. The local manager, whose character, in common with that of his money-takers, should be like that of Caesar's wife, above suspicion, has a perfect right to insist upon this for the sake of his own banking account as well ...

... ANSWERING LETTERS. Sir, In my letter to you on July 8 I cer tainly did not mean to infer that I expected an answer to every letter I wrote to a mana ger, as your correspondent 44Comodian states. Far from it and as to being a mana ger myself, well, I have been. What moved me principally to writ'j wan the non-return of photographs, and espe cially the following, viz., I have written to several ...

... AVAILABLE PLAYS. SIR,--May I supplement Mr. F. Allan Laidlaw's list with the names of some seemingly dead and forgotten plays that might with advantage be resurrected? No Thoroughfare, the tale constituting the Christmas number of All the Year Round for 1867, immediately after its publication was dramatized by its authors, Charles Diokens and Wilkie Collins, and produced in December nt ...