[Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photo. by Warneuke, Glasgow._] Cora Urquhart Potter was born in Louisiana, her father being Scotch and her mother partly Mexican. She was educated by her mother, and taught to act and recite from babyhood, her mother making her play on all occasions such as birthdays and Christmas. Her first appearance before friends was at the age of five years. She was married at seventeen. She never spoke English until fourteen, speaking entirely French and Spanish, She played all over the States as an amateur, and when the occasion came, and she was thrown on her own resources, she adopted the stage as a profession. She has played in every country and city where the English language is spoken. Mrs. Potter has, perhaps, the largest _repertoire_ of any living actress. H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. BORN 1841. [Illustration: AGE 3. _From a Painting by F. Winterhalter._] [Illustration: AGE 17. _From a Photo. by Mayall._] [Illustration: AGE 25. _From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._] [Illustration: AGE 40. _From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._] [Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._] The article on the home life of the Prince and Princess of Wales which we have the privilege of publishing in this number lends additional interest to the portraits of their Royal Highnesses at different ages. The accompanying portraits of the Prince represent him in his nursery; as an Oxford undergraduate; in Highland costume; in the uniform of a Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards (Blues); and finally, in an excellent likeness, at the present day. THE PRINCESS OF WALES. [Illustration: AGE 17. _From a Photo. by Hansen, Copenhagen._] [Illustration: AGE 19. _From a Photo. by Bingham, Paris._] [Illustration: AGE 22. (With the DUKE OF YORK as a Baby.) _From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._] [Illustration: AGE 41. _From a Photo. by Lafayette, Dublin._] [Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._] Our first portrait of the Princess of Wales was taken in her native city nearly two years before her arrival in England; the second was taken at the time of her marriage; the third when her second son, the present Duke of York, was about a year old; and the fourth in her robes as Doctor of Music of the Royal University of Ireland in 1885. The difference in the fashion of the dresses in these portraits is striking, but not more so than the beauty of the Princess. THE REV. S. BARING-GOULD, M.A. BORN 1834. [Illustration: AGE 5. _From a Miniature._] [Illustration: AGE 10. _From a Drawing._] [Illustration: AGE 35. _From a Photo. by Hall, Wakefield._] [Illustration: AGE 46. _From a Photo. by Barnes, Colchester._] [Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._]