[Illustration: _From a Photo. by_| AGE 19. |_C. Watkins, London._] [Illustration: _From a Photo. by_| AGE 35. |_Window & Grove._] HENRY A. JONES. BORN 1851. Mr. Henry Arthur Jones is the son of a Buckinghamshire farmer, and was born at Granbrough. At fourteen he had just left school, and entered commercial life at Ramsgate. Strangely enough, Mr. Jones was never in a theatre till he was eighteen. At the age of nineteen he wrote his first play, which has never been acted. Indeed, Mr. Jones was twenty-eight when he made his first bow as a playwright, with "A Clerical Error," at the Court. Then he rose rapidly, and within three years he had earned both fame and fortune by "The Silver King," the production of which marks the date of our third photograph. The subsequent work of Mr. Jones is too well known to need mention here. [Illustration: _From a Photo._| AGE 13. |_by Marioni._] [Illustration: _From a Photo. by_| AGE 19. |_The London Portrait Co._] [Illustration: _From a Photo. by_| AGE 32. |_W. & D. Downey._] [Illustration: _From a Photo. by_| AGE 40. |_Elliott & Fry._] [Illustration: _From a Photo. by_| AGE 6. |_J.S. Lonsdale._] [Illustration: _From a Photo. by_| AGE 18. |_Elliott & Fry._] MISS MARY RORKE. At the age of six, the age at which she is represented in our first portrait, Miss Mary Rorke had not yet made her appearance on the stage, but at eight she played _Sybil_ in "A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing" with an amateur company--which was the _rôle_, as the readers of our last number will remember, in which little Miss Marion Terry first appeared before the public, and in which Miss Mary Rorke was equally successful. At eighteen, at which age our second portrait represents her, Miss Rorke was appearing on the London stage as _Galatea_--the character which has been associated with the names of so many fascinating actresses on their first appearance, and in which, of all others, grace, beauty, and intelligence such as Miss Mary Rorke's tell most effectively. Mrs. Frank St. Aubyn, which is Miss Rorke's married name, has since become well known and popular at many theatres and in many parts. [Illustration: _From a Photo. by_] PRESENT DAY. [_Elliott & Fry._] We are indebted to the kindness of Miss Mary Rorke for permission to reproduce the above interesting series of portraits. _Humours of the Post Office._ WITH FACSIMILES. Many a pictorial curiosity passes through the post; and the industrious letter-sorter is often bewildered as to where to despatch missives, the envelopes of which bear hieroglyphics which would positively out-Egypt Egypt. Through the courtesy of Sir Arthur Blackwood, we are in a position to reproduce in these pages--for the first time in any publication--a number of these postal puzzles and pictures--the pictures, in many instances, being as clever as they are humorous.