Nevertheless it would be wrong last Wednesday evening's performance went by without special mention, for the programme on that occasion included a march composed cly Pipe-Major Meintosh while in Hongkong and now named "The Road to Sham Shui Po". It is a ighly tuneful composition with Hiotable characteristics of its own, and it obtained deservedly warm applause. Into how many categories pipe music may be divided we do not know, but a few of them are fairly obvious.—There ix the intensely martial air such as Jand the Brave," and there are thers plainly Yeminiscent of the woul and characteristics of some countryside, frequently wild and often romantic, Deseriptive pieces from life might include "The Drunken Piper," while in certain cases a real humoresque has been achieved. We find extremely lively melodies dedicated to ladies—young and exceedingly sprightly we fancy they must have boen—and these are the ones which Chopin mimicked as tribute to his visit to Scotland, And having rambled thus far round the outskirts of the subject, we may express the conclusion that Pipe-'Major Melntosh's march should come into the reminiscent entegory. Hongkong's New Territory has enough of the aspect of hills and Jochs to set inspiration going, and it is not difficult to imagine' that the vicinity called forth sufficiently Pleasing thoughts in the minds of those marching along the road with their battalion or on a tour of exploration in a new land. The Pipe-Major's retreat, "The Mills of Kow-Joon," was heard at the dinner given by St, Andrew's Society to the officers of the Scots Guards, and it is satisfactory to note that it has had as favourable a reception as the march
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