"You two men are awake at last, eh?" say the organists, with peculiar smiles.

In less than half a dozen years there have been at the place many organists, singers, curates, scripture readers, and eight or nine churchwardens.

" Love and faith in woman and art are two constantly recurring themes in "Lux in Tenebris," "At the Source," "Be Blessed," and "Organist of Ponikila.

" "As organists play worshippers out of the church," added Mr. King.

The light through the stained glass windows fell blue and crimson and yellow on the pillars all ruffled with ground-pine and brightened with scarlet bitter- sweet berries, and there were stars and crosses and mottoes in green all through the bowery aisles, while the organist, hid in a thicket of verdure, was practicing softly, and sweet voices sung: "Hark!

[The letter refers to the performance of Handel's "Creation" at the Musical Festival in Westminster Abbey on June 24, 1834, when Novello and Atwood were the organists, and Clara Novello one of the singers.

The best organists realise this.

His lighter hours (about eighteen out of the twenty-four) were passed in terpsichorean performances on the "fo'k'sl," and were so fascinating to the shorey mind that music was specially composed for them, and the "Sailor's Hornpipe" is one of the scourges inflicted upon mortals, for their sins, by barrel-organists at the present day.

I had some astonishingly fine mouth-organists in my section.

BELLINI Of Bellini, that great treasurer for the hand-organists, a story has been told as his first romance.

One of the finest organists in the country, a blind gentleman by the name of Wood, was the power behind the throne.

He came to them in May, 1885, the regular organist being sick.

After leaving school his struggles to succeed as an organist were hard and hitter.

He is to-day one of the most widely known organists of the country, being acknowledged everywhere a master of the instrument.

It is said he has trained more good organists than any other teacher in Philadelphia.

I have before me a list of tunes, to which the organists of our churches and episcopal chapels are limited in their playing; and, what is singular, three of the chief clergymen of the churches confess they literally have no ear for music, and are utter strangers to what an octave means, and yet their authority decides.

The organists in general are very good performers, but, however well that office is filled, the voices of the congregation are wanting, by which a great improvement would be given to the harmony.

No horrors lurked in the woods, where birds sang shrill choruses to the humming undertone of nature's organists.

(In The Organist, Mar. 1934) © 13Jan34; B214525.

(In The Organist, Nov. 1934)

(In The Organist, Mar. 1934)

There was no need to beg masses in the churches or to live on the charity of devout families; they were able to earn their bread by an art conscientiously studied, and consequently they soon got places as organists and Chapel-masters; the Chapters really fought for them.

He had been chosen by the Cardinal Archbishop to go to Madrid, to be one of a board of examiners for organists.

" PURCELL, HENRY, eminent English musician, born at Westminster; was successively organist at Westminster Abbey and to the Chapel Royal; excelled in all forms of musical composition; was the author of anthems, cantatas, glees, &c., which attained great popularity; he set the songs of Shakespeare's "Tempest" to music (1658-1695).

SAINT SAËNS, CHARLES CAMILLE, a French musician, born in Paris; for 19 years organist of the Madeleine; composer of a number of operas (e. g. "Henri VIII.") indifferently successful, and of much orchestral and chamber music of a masterly kind; is held to be one of the greatest of living pianists and organists; also noted for his musical critiques; b. 1835.