... . To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, You have more than once extended to me the hospitality of your columns, and I am going to ask you once more for a little space, hoping I am not presumptuous. I am a regular frequenter of the theatres, almost as regular as the professional critics, and I want to express what i believe is the general opinion of the pit on plays ...

... MR. 0. L. ICENNEY. Chaeles Lamb Kenney, whose death has been announced, was a son of the late James Kenney, the dramatist, and a godson of Charles Lamb. He commenced his literary career at nineteen as assistant foreign editor, dramatic critic, and scientific reporter on the Times, simultaneously contributing to magazines and writing plays for the Lyceum, Princess's, Hayinarket, and Adelphi, in ...

... From JAMES HOWARD, BsqT Clapham Park, Bedfordshire, January 2, 1880. Dear Sirs, When, some months since, you asked my opinion of the BOTANIC FLAVOURER I withheld it for I have hitherto looked with a good deal of suspicion upon all such compounds, and was therefore desirous of giving yours a thorough trial before express ing any opinion-- favourable or otherwise. I have now great pleasure in ...

... . Shi, We have just had a little dramatic excitement in Malta, owing to the performance of the Garrison Dramatic Society at the Opera House. The pieces selected for the occasion were Under the Rose and Old Soldiers. The first piece I was a little bit late for, but from what I saw of the comedietta I was not sorry that I had missed a considerable portion. The dialogue and action were very ...

... . Sir, A paragraph which appears in your issue of May nth, stating that the Greenwich Theatre is again closed, is wholly without foundation. At considerable expense the theatre has been renovated and re-decorated, was opened by me on the 20th of April, has never been closed since, nor is there any intention of closing it. By correcting this in your next issue you will oblige. Sir, vours. &c.. ...

... . Dear Sir,-- Permit mc to draw your attention- to a slight mis take in your last impression of The Illustrated Sporting axd Dramatic News. In a notice of Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's entertainment, your critic speaks (and speaks favourably) of a Mr. Law in the part of Diggles. Now I am not a jealous man hi such matters, and had the criticism been adverse Mr. Law might have retained the credit ...

... t Enclosure 1 Having road and heard of the serious accident which has befallen Mr. Joseph Osborne, which at a very advanced age has resulted in the practical failure of his eyesight, it occurs to me that it becomes almost a duty oil the part of the many interested in horse-breeding who have benefited by the information and perseverance with which he has year after year tabulated tlie pedi ...

... . [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic AYir-s.] Sir, From spins I obtained personally from Spa, com mencing May 5th, 1897, and working them out on paper by the Ten Days at Monte Carlo system, the scheme runs all right for twelve days, the highest stake being 5; hut on the fourth day from this, commencing again, I get as high as 10 stake, making 450 points out, when I did ...

... . Dear bin, Having seen in print remarks upon the similarity -of tlie programme of this society with that of Mr. Willing' s ■Choir, the council respectfully inform you that at the time the H.H.S. programme was decided upon (as far back as June last) -they were not aware that Mr. Willing intended to give a series of concerts during the present season. A dated proof-pro gramme can be seen at ...

... . (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 ...

... n Slr common with many others, I think the tone which the London press (with a few exceptions) has extended to these, our dramatic guests, 19 unnecessarily and unadvriablv cold and half-hearted. It is true that we are somewhat over done with foreign art this season, and that our hard-worked critics may, not unnaturally, resent the undue taxation which il1???SArU?°-nthelr^me and ...

... To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Sir, As you have permitted Mr. Cyril R. Hallward, in your issue of the 9th June, to discuss, in his opinion, the uselessness of Army Signalling, a subject on which he is evidently totally uninformed, 1 trust you will do me the favour of in serting this letter, as I can claim some acquaintance with the subject. He says, Why go ...