ce. We may remind our
readers that a charming series of portraits of Princess Victoria of Teck
appeared in our issue of February, 1892.

THE DUKE OF TECK.

BORN 1837.

[Illustration: AGE 3. _From a Painting._]

[Illustration: AGE 5. _From a Painting by Johan Elmer._]

[Illustration: AGE 28. _From a Painting._]

[Illustration: AGE 40. _From a Painting._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry._]

His Serene Highness Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander, G.C.B., Prince
and Duke of Teck, is the only son of Duke Alexander of Wuertemberg and
the Countess Claudine Rhedy and Countess of Hohenstein, a lady of a most
illustrious but not princely house. It is not generally known that a
family law, which decrees that the son of a marriage between a prince of
the Royal Family of Wuertemberg and a lady not of princely birth, however
nobly born, cannot inherit the crown, alone prevents the Duke of Teck
from being King of Wuertemberg. The Duke of Teck has served with
distinction in the Army, having received the Egyptian medal and the
Khedive's star, together with the rank of colonel.

REV. H. R. HAWEIS, M.A.

BORN 1838.

[Illustration: AGE 9. _From a Water-colour Drawing by his Father._]

[Illustration: AGE 13. _From a Daguerreotype._]

[Illustration: AGE 18. _From a Daguerreotype._]

[Illustration: AGE 28. _From a Photo. by Samuel A. Walker._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photo. by Russell & Sons._]

The Reverend Hugh Reginald Haweis, preacher, lecturer, journalist,
musician, was born at Egham, his father being the Rev. J. O. W. Haweis,
rector of Slaugham, Sussex. He was educated at Trinity College,
Cambridge, and appointed in 1866 incumbent of St. James's, Marylebone.
He has been an indefatigable advocate of the Sunday opening of museums,
and a frequent lecturer at the Royal Institution, notably on violins,
church bells, and American humorists. He also took a great interest in
the Italian Revolution.

FREDERIC H. COWEN.

BORN 1852.

[Illustration: AGE 3. _From a Photograph._]

[Illustration: AGE 11. _From a Photograph._]

[Illustration: AGE 16. _From a Photograph._]

[Illustration: AGE 24. _From a Photograph._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry._]

Mr. F. H. Cowen, whose new opera will appear about the same time as
these portraits, was born at Kingston, in Jamaica, and showed at a very
early age so much musical talent that it was decided he