[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 should follow music as a career, with what excellent results is known to all musicians. His more important works comprise five cantatas, "The Rose Maiden," "The Corsair," "Saint Ursula," "The Sleeping Beauty," and "St. John's Eve," several symphonies, the opera "Thorgrim," considered his finest work, and over two hundred songs and ballads, many of which have attained great popularity. _The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes._ XV.--THE ADVENTURE OF THE YELLOW FACE. BY A. CONAN DOYLE. In publishing these short sketches, based upon the numerous cases which my companion's singular gifts have made me the listener to, and eventually the actor in some strange drama, it is only natural that I should dwell rather upon his successes than upon his failures. And this not so much for the sake of his reputation, for indeed it was when he was at his wits' end that his energy and his versatility were most admirable, but because where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded, and that the tale was left for ever without a conclusion. Now and again, however, it chanced that even when he erred the truth was still discovered. I have notes of some half-dozen cases of the kind of which "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" and that which I am now about to recount are the two which present the strongest features of interest.