Next month in London a farewell performance—or series of _performances—will be given by artists who for fifty years have, in their own line, attained to considerable reputation, Not that the artists themselves have reached the half-century for it would never do to be precise aboitt such a delicate matter artist's age. Their performance has laurels. There will be memories of the Zero Club, which Mr. Cumming. helped to found, and of "Windy Cor-Iner" which saw the last of his bile-spi service with the [Shanghai Scottish. Mrs. Cumming—with even more personal grounds for thinking of Shanghai—may also rest assured that her active work for many years in charitable effort will be gratefully remembered. been sustained for that period and the executants have carried on the roles assigned to them from one generation to another, as it reason for the signal of well is not due to any lack of musical genius or encouragement from the Jarge public which has appreciated these efforts, The simple fact is that the advance of modern means of Jocomiotion has rendered the artists superfluous in the setting which they adorned. In plain English the musical drives of the Royal Horse Artillery to be given at Olympia next month, in accordance with long standing practice, will be the last of their kind owing to the mechanization of the "horse gunners." "F" *Sphinx) Battery of the RHLA. will appear in the arena and will be specially rich in talent as it has received several excellent teams from the already mechanized, "D" and "J" Balteries. The military value of the musical drive has been ree-agnized as that of training horses and drivers to move accurately at high speed. And the cheers which have made the roof of Olympia ring. in May have testified to the e1 thusiasm generated in the audion But if horses are no longer required 4o bring guns into action, Othell occupation's gone. That is the story in a nutshell,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.