Mr. Hare, as most people have the pleasure of knowing from experience, is the finest actor of old men at present on the stage--if not, indeed, the finest ever seen. It seems strange, as we regard the strong young face of our first portrait, that Mr. Hare was then, or very little later, acting _Sir Peter Teazle_ to the very life. Mr. Hare as an old man is old all over. Yet no two of his old men are like each other; no characters bear less resemblance than _Lord Kilclare_ in "A Quiet Rubber," and _Benjamin Goldfinch_ in "A Pair of Spectacles," but which is the most life-like it is difficult to say. Mr. Hare, indeed, prefers his present part to any of his _rôles_, as may be learnt, with other facts of interest, by a reference to page 182 of this number; and certainly a more delightful piece of character-acting it is impossible to conceive than that which represents the dear old gentleman whose faith in waiters, bootmakers, butlers, brothers, friends, and wives, is so rudely shaken and so happily restored. At his present age, of which our last portrait is a speaking likeness, Mr. Hare is a familiar figure, not only on the stage, but on horseback in the Row, or, more delightful still to his acquaintances, talking from an easy-chair as no one but himself _can_ talk, or rising after dinner to make one of his inimitable speeches. For permission to reproduce these portraits we have to thank the courtesy of Mr. Hare. MR. AND MRS. BANCROFT. By the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft we are able to present our readers with their portraits at an age when they had not yet met each other--when Marie Wilton was the life and soul of the burlesques at the "Strand" Theatre, and when Mr. Bancroft was still studying in the provinces the art with which he was to charm the audiences of the "Prince of Wales's." In our second portraits Marie Wilton was still Marie Wilton, but was on the eve of becoming Mrs. Bancroft; and finally, in the centre, we have them both as at the present day. [Illustration: AGE 23. _From a Photograph by W. Keith, Liverpool._] [Illustration: AGE 37. _From a Photograph by Window & Grove._] [Illustration: _From a Photograph by Window & Grove._ AGE 18.] [Illustration: _From a Photograph by Barraud._] [Illustration: _From a Photograph by Walker & Sons._ AGE 27.] PROFESSOR HUXLEY. BORN 1825. [Illustration: AGE 31. _From a Photograph._]