... By BASCULE. Apropos of the conventional lead when the third player doubles no-trumps, a correspondent writes as follows Din it Sib, In your issue of the 6th June, 1 notice you talk about the danger of doubling no-trumps on an all-round hand. I have adopted this convention for the last year, merely stipu lating with my partner that whether I, as third hand, double no- trumps, or whether I ...

... CORRESPON DEN CE. Quarantine for Dogs. Irksome Legislation. To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Sir, No lover of dogs and, as Lord Bacon said. Every gentleman loves a dog can approve the unwhole some and unclean device of sealing on its back a leather saddle, which cannot be moved for six months. The dog can neither be washed nor even brushed during that time; if it ...

... -=^ribge. BY BASCULE. An American correspondent writes as follows Denver, Colo., Oct. 13th, '07. Mr DEAR Bascule, I would like your opinion of the following line of play, which I have certainly never seen suggested in any book. Y Z are a game in, and have 28 to their opponents' 0 on the second. One of the opponents has declared spades. Z, having it in his power to either win or lose the ...

... . [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.] Sir, I think that your article of the 13th inst. on Riding and Riding Schools is just a little hard on me, and 1 hope that there is no occasion for English people to go abroad to obtitin instruction in high-class riding. I have over forty horses broken on school principles to understand the military aids, and also horses ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. (To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic Mews.) BUFFORD HUNT. Dear Sir,-- Fred Higgins, the huntsman, having died very suddenly, leaving a widow and eight young children, Lord Manvers and others think some members of the Hunt and friends may like to join in a subscription for the hanpfit. nf his bereaved widow and children. Subscriptions will be thankfully ...

... . Chatham Island. To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Sie, I see in your issue of November 7th, in your Circular Notes, a paiagraph about Chatham Island, in the Galopagos group, which, 1 am afraid, is not quite correct, and as we have just returned from a cruise round those islands, and I, at any rate, had a very pleasant day at Chatham Island, some of the following ...

... COEEESPONDEN CE. To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Sir, Allow me to correct a curious mistake made by you concerning poor General Burnaby's hunting costume. He never was seen in Napoleons. As I constantly, not to say regularly, saw him out hunting in Leicestershire, from 1862 to the time of his death, my authority is pretty good. I have been in his dressing-room at ...

... . L lo the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.] Dear Sir, In reference to your paragraph in the Sporting awl Drama tic News of 2llli November, as to licenses covering one roil only, you may be interested to hear that the point has just been decided by the Recorder of Galway, who held that it was one rod one license, two rods two licenses. That is, of course, used at the ...

... . [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.] Sir, I think the public should be informed that the lato Mr. John Sims Reeves, in addition to the grown-up children of his first marriage, left a widow aged twenty- seven, and an orphan son aged four, who bears his name, totally destitute, and dependent solely on the precarious earnings of tho widow as a vocalist. If any member ...

... . Tn the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. San Francisco, Cal. 23 rd September, 1902. Dear Sir, As I take great pleasure in reading your Cir cular Notes permit me to point out that you have quoted the wholesale prices for poultry and game, and as there is a wide difference between them and retail prices, I give to day's prices for both. Hares. The hare sold here is quite a different ...

... . To' the Editor of l'he Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Dear Sir, With your photo of Rupert, by Orange Boy, dam by Sharp Catcher, &c., you said that you could not trace Orange Boy's pedigree, therefore it may interest you to know he was by New Oswestry (hence comes the jumping strain), but I forget the dam's breeding except that he was clean bred. Orange Boy was a dark brown horse ...

... No. 4.- -Edited by J. M. B. Dear C., There's such a lot of things save din. and dine, and drama when one is out of leading strings in London's panorama. I love to watch the streets at night when everything's electric, and won't believe that mother's right to scout my taste as hectic. The country with its dreary drabs is rather wishy-washy, I'd rather ride in hansom cabs even when the streets ...