[Illustration: AGE 18.

_From a Photo. by Elmer & Chickering, Boston._]

[Illustration: AGE 24.

_From a Photo. by Filk, Sydney._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.

_From a Photo. by Warneuke, Glasgow._]

Cora Urquhart Potter was born in Louisiana, her father being Scotch and
her mother partly Mexican. She was educated by her mother, and taught to
act and recite from babyhood, her mother making her play on all
occasions such as birthdays and Christmas. Her first appearance before
friends was at the age of five years. She was married at seventeen. She
never spoke English until fourteen, speaking entirely French and
Spanish, She played all over the States as an amateur, and when the
occasion came, and she was thrown on her own resources, she adopted the
stage as a profession. She has played in every country and city where
the English language is spoken. Mrs. Potter has, perhaps, the largest
_repertoire_ of any living actress.

H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. BORN 1841.

[Illustration: AGE 3.

_From a Painting by F. Winterhalter._]

[Illustration: AGE 17.

_From a Photo. by Mayall._]

[Illustration: AGE 25.

_From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._]

[Illustration: AGE 40.

_From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.

_From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._]

The article on the home life of the Prince and Princess of Wales which
we have the privilege of publishing in this number lends additional
interest to the portraits of their Royal Highnesses at different ages.
The accompanying portraits of the Prince represent him in his nursery;
as an Oxford undergraduate; in Highland costume; in the uniform of a
Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards (Blues); and finally, in an excellent
likeness, at the present day.

THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

[Illustration: AGE 17.

_From a Photo. by Hansen, Copenhagen._]

[Illustration: AGE 19.

_From a Photo. by Bingham, Paris._]

[Illustration: AGE 22.

(With the DUKE OF YORK as a Baby.)

_From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._]

[Illustration: AGE 41.

_From a Photo. by Lafayette, Dublin._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.

_From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._]

Our first portrait of the Princess of Wales was taken in her native city
nearly two years before her arrival in England; the second was taken at
the time of her marriage; the third when her second son, the present
Duke of York, was about a year old; and the fourth in her robes as
Doctor of Music of th