[Illustration: _From a Photograph by Messrs. Elliott & Fry._ AGE 55.] SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, BART. BORN 1834. Sir John Lubbock, at nineteen, was already showing, in his father's bank in Lombard-street, the remarkable capacity for business which he combines beyond example with pre-eminence in literature and science. At twenty-eight, the age at which our second portrait represents him, he was already meditating his great work on "Prehistoric Times"--a book which has been translated into all the leading languages, and to which the writer chiefly owes his fame. Sir John Lubbock's mind, as is well known, is of the enviable kind which can find its interests alike in the great and in the little, in the past and in the present--which can pass from the wigwam of a prehistoric savage to the London of to-day, and turn with equal gusto from canoes to County Councils, and from banks to bees. Our portraits are reproduced from photographs kindly lent by Sir John Lubbock for the purpose. [Illustration: _From a Daguerreotype._ AGE 3.] [Illustration: _From a Photograph._ AGE 7.] [Illustration: _From a Photograph by M. G. Blaise, Tours._ AGE 19.] [Illustration: _From a Photograph by Mr. A. J. Melhuish._ AGE 34.] H. RIDER HAGGARD. BORN 1856. It is not often possible to present a portrait of a well-known writer taken in his nursery days; but in the case of Mr. Rider Haggard, he has obligingly enabled us to do so, as well as to reproduce a portrait of himself when, as a boy of seven, he was probably about to quit the nursery for the schoolroom. The third portrait of the series represents him when, at nineteen, as secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer, he was about to pay a lengthy visit to Natal--there to acquire the thorough familiarity with the scenery and the people of South Africa, which he was afterwards to turn to excellent account, especially in "Jess." Our final portrait, which is taken from a recent photograph, represents him as he is at present, when he has proved himself the best romantic writer of the day. _A Fair Smuggler._ FROM THE RUSSIAN OF MICHAEL LERMONTOFF.