e Royal University of Ireland in 1885. The
difference in the fashion of the dresses in these portraits is striking,
but not more so than the beauty of the Princess.

THE REV. S. BARING-GOULD, M.A.

BORN 1834.

[Illustration: AGE 5.

_From a Miniature._]

[Illustration: AGE 10.

_From a Drawing._]

[Illustration: AGE 35.

_From a Photo. by Hall, Wakefield._]

[Illustration: AGE 46.

_From a Photo. by Barnes, Colchester._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.

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

The Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, who has of late years won world-wide
popularity as the writer of "Mehalah," "John Herring," and many other
novels, was born at Exeter, and is the eldest son of Mr. Edward
Baring-Gould, of Lew-Trenchard, Devon, where the family has resided for
nearly 300 years, and of which place he is now the Rector. He is also
Justice of the Peace for the County of Devon. He had written on various
subjects of historical research before he took to novel-writing.

LORD CHARLES BERESFORD.

BORN 1846.

[Illustration: AGE 14.

_From a Photograph._]

[Illustration: AGE 20.

_From a Photograph._]

[Illustration: AGE 40.

_From a Photo. by Dickinson & Foster._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.

_From a Photo. by Merlin, Athens._]

Lord Charles Beresford, son of the Marquis of Waterford, entered the
Royal Navy at thirteen, served on several warships, and accompanied the
Prince of Wales to India, in 1875, as Naval _Aide-de-Camp_. At the
bombardment of Alexandria he was in command of the gunboat _Condor_, and
his gallant conduct in bearing down on the Marabout batteries and
silencing guns immensely superior to his own was so conspicuous that the
Admiral's ship signalled: "Well done, _Condor_!" In 1884 he assisted
Lord Wolseley in the Nile Expedition.

JOHN ROBERTS.

BORN 1847.

[Illustration: AGE 2.

_From a Photograph._]

[Illustration: AGE 16.

_From a Photograph._]

[Illustration: AGE 26.

_From a Photograph by Whitlock, Birmingham._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.

_From a Photo. by Alerts, Bombay._]

John Roberts, the finest billiard player the world has ever seen, was
born at Ardwick, Manchester. He commenced his career as a billiard
player very early in life, for when only a child of eleven he assisted
his father at the George Hotel, in Liverpool, his father at the time
being universally considered the best in England, and, consequently, we
find that he had in early life the