bility on every occasion to interest the people, the multitude 
as well as those of fine, sensitive discrimination. The present 
organ contains one hundred registers representing as many 
different tonal shades, produced in all by 7,669 pipes, not 
counting the bells, the chimes, and a concert grand piano. 
The inaugural recital of this great instrument took place on 
February 9. 1918. 
DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS 
It is the purpose of the Carnegie Institute in the field of 
Fine Arts to present for the education and pleasure of the 
people, collections of architecture and of sculpture, of paint- 
ings, graphic arts, and applied arts, and of all works of art 
expressing the qualities of beauty, grace, and harmony. 
In the Halls of Architecture and of Sculpture there are 
exhibited supreme examples of the great periods of art. In 
the formation of these collections it was the definite purpose 
to create, by the dignity of the groups, an inspiring and up- 
liftmg sense of the glory of art, as represented by these 
masterpieces of all time. 
The visitor may forget the historical data, but the im- 
pression will remain. To this end the great monuments, 
portals, and columns, and the groups of statuary have been 
arranged, not so much as individual examples, but as parts 
of consistent compositions, the position of each object having 
relation to the completed groups. 
The Hall of Sculpture, beautiful in itself in proportion 
and design, with its white Pentelic marble columns and quiet 
green walls, creates at once an impression of harmony and 
beauty; and the statues and bas-reliefs installed there repre- 
sent the beautiful in sculpture and illustrate the great periods 
of this art from its beginning to the end of the Roman period. 
At the end of the hall, which opens on to the main cor- 
sidor are statues and reliefs which come from Egypt and 
Assyria, Persia and Chaldea, and which belong to the earliest 
period. Here are severe and rigid figures, crude and primi- 
tive in form and modeling, yet possessing a mysterious and 
impressive dignity. To the period of early Greek art, of