We have received the first number of a new musical
quarterly, The Organ (Musical Opinion, 2s.). Dr. Eaglefield "Hull writes on the organ in the Church of St. Gervais, which was actually Played by Couperin the Great, and there is an article on the interesting eighteenth-century instrument in St. Katharine Coleman, Fenchurch Street. From " The Organs and Organists of St; Martin-in-the-Fields," by the Rev. Andrew Freeman, we learn that the first organist recorded in the Churchwardens' Accounts,-" Mr. Watts his Child," received in 1525 the munificent salary- of xvis. - viijd. " to pley at Organs byal that yere."
Christopher Gibbons, a son of Orlando Gibbons, was organist from 1674-76, and in 1854 the position was occupied for one year by the great W. T. Best. Specifications of the organs of Harrow School Chapel, of Westminster Cathedral, and of the Crystal Palace are a welcome feature which will no doubt be continued in future numbers. The magazine is well illustrated, and should be of considerable interest to organ lovers.
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