is was his last work. These misfortunes
culminated in an appeal to his countrymen for subscriptions on his
behalf in the musical papers. In his old age he had married the
eighteen-year-old daughter of M. Ougby, his late foreman. He died at
Maidstone, Eng., November 26, 1879.

This sketch of Barker's career is taken partly from Grove's Dictionary
of Music, from Hopkins and Rimbault's History, and from Dr. Hinton's
"Story of the Electric Organ." The paragraphs within quotation marks
are verbatim from this book by kind permission of Dr. Hinton, whom we
have to thank also for the portrait of Barker which appears on another
page.

ARISTIDE CAVAILLE-COLL.

The following sketch of the life of this eminent artist is taken from
Dr. Bedart's forthcoming book on "Cavaille-Coll and His Times," and
from Le Monde Musical, of Paris, October 30, 1899, translated by Mr.
Robert F. Miller, of Boston. The portrait is from the same magazine.

Aristide Cavaille-Coll was born at Montpellier, France, on the 4th day
of February, 1811. He was the son of Dominique Cavaille-Coll, who was
well known as an organ-builder in Languedoc, and grandson of Jean
Pierre Cavaille, the builder of the organs of Saint Catherine and Merci
of Barcelona. The name of Coll was that of his grandmother. If we
should go back further we find at the commencement of the Eighteenth
Century at Gaillac three brothers--Cavaille-Gabriel, the father of Jean
Pierre; Pierre, and Joseph, who also was an organ-builder. Aristide
Cavaille, therefore, came honestly by his profession and at the age of
18 years was entrusted by his father to direct the construction of the
organ at Lerida, in which he introduced for the first time the manual
to pedal coupler and the system of counter-balances in the large wind
reservoirs.

In 1834 Aristide, realizing the necessity of cultivating his knowledge
of physics and mechanics, went to Paris, where he became the pupil of
Savart and of Cagnard-Latour. The same year a competition was opened
for the construction of a large organ in the royal church of St. Denis;
Aristide submitted his plan and succeeded in obtaining the contract.
This success decided the Messrs. Cavaille to remove their organ factory
to Paris, where they established themselves in the Rue Neuve St.
George. On account of repairs being made to the church building, the
organ of St. Denis was not finished until 1841, but it showed
improvements of great importance, firs