Before leaving the neighbourhood I paid a visit to the Chapelle de St. Bruno, which is within half an hour's walk of the monastery. It is erected in a very wild spot, said to be the site of the saint's original hermitage. There is nothing particularly interesting in the chapel, which is in a state of dilapidation. But it is curious to speculate that here dwelt, in what was little more than a cavern, the man who, by the austerity of his life and his gloomy views, was able to found a religious Order which has endured for many ages, and is one of the few that escaped destruction during the revolutions and upheavals of the last century. The situation of the Chapelle is one of singular loneliness and desolation, and for eight months of the year at least it is buried in snow. As I turned my back upon the Grande Chartreuse, after that memorable night spent under its roof, and feeling grateful for the shelter and refreshment it had afforded me, the morning sun was gilding the glorious landscape, and I breathed a sigh of relief and gladness, for I seemed to have come from a region of sorrow and gloom, where the coldness of death was ever present, into the healthy, joyous life of the throbbing, breathing world. [Illustration: CHAPEL OF ST. BRUNO] _Portraits of Celebrities at different times of their Lives._ HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. [Illustration: _From a Drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A._ AGE 6 MONTHS.] [Illustration: _From a_] AGE 8. [_Miniature._] [Illustration: _From a Drawing by_] AGE 18. [_R. Lane, A.R.A._] [Illustration: _From a Painting by_] AGE 45. [_A. Gracfle._] [Illustration: _From a Photo. by_] PRESENT DAY. [_Wallery._] WE here present a series of portraits of the Queen, which, together with the portrait given on our first page, completely represent the features of Her Majesty from baby-hood until the present day. PRINCESS BEATRICE. BORN 1857. IT is fitting that next the portraits of Her Majesty the Queen should be placed those of the daughter who has been her most constant companion of late years. [Illustration: _From a_] AGE 4. [_Photograph._] [Illustration: _From a Painting by_] AGE 7. [_Lauchert._] [Illustration: _From a Lithograph by Maclure & Macdonald._ AGE 17.] [Illustration: _From a Photo. by_] PRESENT DAY. [_Messrs. Elliott & Fry._] THE EMPRESS FREDERICK OF GERMANY. BABY, child, bride, and widow--such are the four portraits of the Queen's eldest daughter which we give above. An earlier portrait even than the first of these, and one of the most interesting in existence, is that which the Queen with her own hand depicted of her baby while it was still in swaddling-clothes, and which we have the pleasure of presenting to our readers as the frontispiece of the present number. [Illustration: _From a Miniature by W. C. Ross, A.R.A., Miniature Painter to the Queen._ AGE 12 MONTHS.]