... ANNIVSRSARY of the OPENING of the GAIETY Theatre, Dublin. Banquet to the Proprietors, Measrs. J. and M. Guru n. (FROMI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The anniversary of the opening of the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, was celebrated on Thursday evening, the 5th inst., by entertaining the enter prising Proprietors at a magnificent banquet at the Antient Concert Rooms, at which about 150 of the leading ...

... Dir. J. L. TOOLE in Edinburgh. The Edinbt urgh Daily Resieu, December 3d, 1S72, says:- Last night this famous comedian commenced a six Fights' engagement at the Theatre Royal, appearing to a crowded house In Paul Pry and the new serio-comic drama Off the Line. Paul Pry is a comedy of the old school, which keeps the stage, despite a very involved and uninteresting plot, through the excellence ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEM.ETS. THEATRE S'O'rAL, DREYRY.LABU. SOLe Leossa Aec, RAVAERl. F. 1B. C19AvPRallON ?? 15, 17.Ia. and! 19,.TIlE LADY QrTHRILAKE, e ,writion and desf .ned by Audrevy Halliday. Founded on tbae.lebriitcd poemu by 'ir Walter Scott. I'loostratod with megnild' oent eoenery ylWirlliamnBevcrley. Cbcrsctera by Meess. H. Sinclair, INPO~ySIN.Prce ro I t k.Box-ffo open tO tils daly. cd tie Din ...

... L L T E BA TU R x CE0lSTMAs LlTEPITR aness Me Iis the title of a massive volume Issued. by Dean and Soa, of Ludgete-hill. As may be in- jarred from the heading,.it contains a collection of enigmas, charades, ?? charades, double acrostics, woanudrums, verbal puzzles, hier oglyphics, anagrams, kg. The book is excellently illustratedsby Craik- ehnk and others, and will prove immensely amusing t ...

... REOENT NOVELS. Mrs. Oliphant has travelled citywards in search Df a plot for her latest novel, At His Gates (3 vols., Tinsley Brothers); and her story has gained Donsiderably in power by the admission of money .As a motive. Novelists, as a rule, err in over- weighting their characters with attachment for pach other. In real life the seat of the affections lies quite as often in the pocket ...

... i CURRENT LITERA TURE. , A book df ramblings in an unknown, or little known, country is shorn of half its utility when published without a map. That there is no rnap .to- Mr. Clarence King's NMountainaring inthe Sierra Xevada (London: Sampson 'Low, Mars- ton, Low, and Searle, 1 vol.) is the chief fault we 'have to find with it. Themerits of tthe work are numerous.; Written with'spirit, but ...

... I =TI THE. Nma mOT THE SOCIET YOFPAINnhR.lwATytooU , The Eiehibition of Sketches and Studies by th' members of the Water Colour Society has yO Sitear decade of gradual departure from its orig0in I 4 developed into one that completely rivals the exhif of finished drawings which occupies the summer al water colour painters, like the rest of theiruaoni c 4 present day, seem to find It impossible ...

... . _ , . ?? BRITISH ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY. The inaugural performnance of this new society, j on December 6,, has already been noticed; and We havo now to record the second concert, which took place last week, when the selection performed was as follows: Ovorture, Leonora, ?? Iseethoven Air, Mes Salvation is nigh, ?? I W. Sterndale Bennctt Corcerto, Violoncello (No. a, B minor) ?? Goltra ...

... LrIT J AT 0 BE entISTMAS ANNUAIA. ' gelgrnvia A.nnual.-Miss Braddon's Christ- The' is only a fair one. It contains nothing ?? numnirble in any way. It has a list of good veryl zuarr . but they must have been uninspired tatutoete 'jts, or in a bad humonr, for the stories bytbeiry 5cecnmonplace. Miss Braddon's stories- mery es and 'AGood Hater-are, of cos as, ?? Tite but are not up to.-her ...

... .i I D a ?? A.i ; lGEQUESTRIAN PERFO ?? .- EHorse-riding and the aorobatio,' saltatory, Qnd D other performanees, whioh seem to be inepaerably con. nesoted with it, are essentially winter entertainments. Thus, for many months London, which only last winter numbered no less then three circuses, has 'ben absolutely without a place of amusement of this kiad.. Astley's, still associated, in name ...

... THEATRIOALS IN AUSTRALIA. (EROS OUR OWN CORRrSPONDENT,) MELBOURNE, OCT. 11, 1872.-Of course the sensation of the month has been the marvellous Lottie, who with her brothers Frank and Victor have been astonishing all beholders. It appears next to impossible to whet the appetites of the enthusiastic audiences that nightly greet her and most handsome offers have been made by enterprising caterers ...

... THE GL OBE THEA TRE. TnH one-act drama of Marcel, written by MM. Jules Sandeau and De Courcelles, and first represented at the ThdAtre Frangais in May last, has now been adapted to the English stage, and, under the somewhat ill-chosen title of Tears ! Idle Tears ! produced at the Globe Theatre. The extraordinary success achieved by Marcel in Paris has been due in a great measure to ...