Commons
would be safe from lapse into such an exhibition. To this better state
of things the operation of the New Rules has conspicuously contributed,
and though, as we know, they have not operated to the absolute
extinction of Parliamentary scenes, they have appreciably limited
opportunity and incentive.

_Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives_.

LORD BATTERSEA.

[Illustration: AGE 14.

_From a Daguerreotype._]

BORN 1843.

Lord Battersea, who was until recently known to the world as Mr. Cyril
Flower, M.P., is a son of the late Mr. P. W. Flower, of Streatham, and
was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge.

[Illustration: AGE 21.

_From a Photo, by Mayland, Cambridge._]

He was called to the Bar at the age of twenty-seven, and became Liberal
Member for Brecknock in 1880, and for the Luton Division of Bedfordshire
in 1885 and 1886, in which later year he was one of Mr. Gladstone's
"Whips." He married the daughter of the late Sir Anthony Rothschild, and
both he and his wife are much interested in the welfare of the lower
classes of London. Lord Battersea was unanimously reputed the handsomest
man in the House of Commons, and is now, in every sense of the word, an
ornament of the House of Lords.

[Illustration: AGE 40.

_From a Drawing._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.

_From a Photograph by Bassano, 35, Old Bond Street, W._.]

W. Q. ORCHARDSON, R.A.

BORN 1835.

[Illustration: AGE 16.

_From an Oil Sketch by himself._]

[Illustration: AGE 35.

_From a Photograph by Walery, Marseilles._]

[Illustration: AGE 44.

_From a Photograph._]

Mr. William Quiller Orchardson was born in Edinburgh, and at the age of
fifteen entered the Trustees' Academy of that city, his first pictures
being exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy. At the age of
twenty-eight he came to London, and the same year exhibited at the Royal
Academy for the first time, his contributions being entitled, "An Old
English Song" and "Portraits," the latter a life-size composition of
three young ladies. In 1865 he painted "The Challenge," which won a
prize of L100 given by Mr. Wallace, and one of the very few Medals
awarded to English painters at the Paris Universal Exhibition. In 1866
came "The Story of a Life"--an aged nun relating her experiences to a
group of novices. Two years later, when he had only been four years in
London, he was elected an A.R.A. Among his more recent pictures