THE FIGHTING DINERS.

Napoleon's dragoons have gone, but their artistic temperament has lived on to find a re-opening in the spirit of the fighting diners of Memorial. Napoleon's men pelted "The Last Supper" with brickbats; their successors have used potatoes and biscuits, usually softer but no less dangerous missiles, to pelt the pictures that line the walls of Memorial Hall. Napoleon's men probably did not know that in "The Last Supper" Leonardo da Vinci had done a world masterpiece; our fighting contemporaries probably do not appreciate the fact that Memorial contains pictures of great value from the hands of our best portrait painters. But, whereas Napoleon never asked his dragoons to preserve "The Last Supper," members of Memorial have time and again been asked to respect the pictures that surround them. Damage has been done; that is known. The knowledge should be enough to put a quietus on further demonstrations of the fighting instinct.