The King and Queen attended the very impressive Choral Com-
memoration of the heroic deeds of the First Seven Divisions front Mons to Ypres, held at the Albert Hall last Saturday. Seven hundred men of the Old Army were entertained at the Guildhall before being taken to the Hall. The musical programme was admirably designed to reflect the changing moods of the men engaged in that great adventure. Sir Hubert Parry's unaccompanied motet " There is an old belief " and Mr. Plunket Greene's superb rendering of Sir Villiers Stanford's " Farewell " expressed most nobly the pride and the sorrow of the vast audience in recalling the men who saved the Allied cause at the outset of the war. After the music was over, Mr. Balfour read the famous passage from Ecclesiasticus, "Let us now praise famous men," and Lord Derby read the Order of Battle of the First Seven Divisions, to the cheers of the soldiers when they heard the names of very famous bat- talions. It was a memorable occasion.
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