"What a hissing there was at one of my entertainments at Leicester," said the humorist-caricaturist looking across at me with twinkling eyes. "A terrible hissing! I showed Mr. Gladstone on the sheet. Immediately it burst forth like a suddenly alarmed steam-engine. The audience rose in indignation--they tried to outdo it with frantic applause, but in spite of their lusty efforts it continued for several minutes. "'Turn him out--turn him out!' they cried. But we couldn't find the party who was acting so rudely. "Imagine my feelings next morning when I saw in the papers leading articles speaking in strong terms of this occurrence, which, one of them stated in bold type--'was a disgrace to the people of Leicester.'" "Bogie" rose from the hearth-rug, wagged his tail, and made his exit. "Good night, Buz." "Good night, Frank." "And did they ever discover this very unseemly person?" I asked Mr. Furniss when we were alone. "Oh! I forgot to tell you," he said, "that it was the hissing of the lime in my magic lantern!" HARRY HOW. [Illustration: Telegraphic Address, Likajoko, London] _Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives._ [Illustration: AGE 10. _From a Photo. by W. Andrews, Dublin._] [Illustration: Age 20. _From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._] HARRY FURNISS. BORN 1854. At ten years old Mr. Furniss was a pupil at the Wesleyan College School at Dublin, where he started and edited _The Schoolboy's Punch_, in the manner described in the extremely interesting interview which appears in the present number. At twenty he had just come up to London, and was working for the illustrated papers. At twenty-six he joined the staff of _Punch_, with which his name has ever since been intimately connected. [Illustration: AGE 26. _From a Photo. by C. Watkins, Camden Road, N.W._] [Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photo by Debenham & Gould._] [Illustration: AGE 17. _From a Photo, by A. Adams, Aberdeen._] [Illustration: AGE 24. _From a Photo. by John Lamb, Aberdeen._] SIR GEORGE REID, P.R.S.A. BORN 1842. Sir George Reid, P.R.S.A., was born in Aberdeen, N.B., in the year 1842, and when nineteen years of age commenced his artistic studies at the "Trustees' Academy," in the City of Edinburgh, and shortly afterwards in Utrecht, under Mollinger. In 1870 he quitted the latter place for Paris, where he continued his studies; and for several months in 1871 completed his student life with Israels, at The Hague. He has proved himself a true artist, and proficient in all departments--both figure and landscape. Latterly he has applied himself to portrait painting, in which he finds few competitors. He has done much in the way of book illustrating. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1870, and a full member seven years afterwards, receiving on the death of Sir W. Fettes Douglas the unanimous call of his brethren to occupy the chair as President. [Illustration: AGE 36.