Barnby and certain other critics who had heard her only in private. Her
advance to the front rank of English singers was exceedingly rapid, and
her position amongst us was long since made secure. Madame Cole has
taken part in nearly all the great musical events in this country during
the past four years. She has sung everywhere in London--with the Royal
Choral Society at the Albert Hall, at the Handel Festival at the Crystal
Palace, at the Ballad Concerts, at the Monday Popular Concerts, at Sir
Charles Halle's Concerts, and at Bristol, Chester, Leeds, Birmingham,
and other leading towns. As seems to have been the case with most
well-dowered musicians, Madame Cole's talent owes something to heredity.
Musical ability, greater or less, may at all events be traced back in
her family for a considerable period. Madame Cole's first distinct
success in public was gained with Mr. Theodore Thomas, during that
gentleman's first "grand transcontinental tour from ocean to ocean"
in 1883.

[Illustration: AGE 8.
_From a Photograph._]

[Illustration: AGE 20.
_From a Photo. by Naegeli, New York._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.
_From a Photo. by Walery, Regent Street._]

THE LORD BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH.

BORN 1843.

Professor the Rev. Mandell Creighton, M.A., was born at Carlisle, and
educated at Durham Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford. He was
ordained deacon in 1870 and priest in 1873, and in 1875 accepted the
living of Embleton, in Northumberland. In 1884 he was elected to the
newly founded professorship of Ecclesiastical History in the University
of Cambridge. In 1885 he was appointed by the Crown canon residentiary
of Worcester Cathedral. He is the author of several historical works:
"Primer of Roman History," 1875; "The Age of Elizabeth," 1876; etc. His
principal work is a "History of the Papacy During the Period of the
Reformation." He was appointed Bishop of Peterborough in 1891.

[Illustration: AGE 17.
_From a Photograph._]

[Illustration: AGE 23.
_From a Photo. by Wheeler & Day, Oxford._]

[Illustration: AGE 48.
_From a Photo. by H.S. Mendelssohn, Newcastle._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.
_From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry._]

LORD WANTAGE.

BORN 1832.

Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, K.C.B., V.C. is the eldest son of the late
Lieut.-General James Lindsay. He was educated at Eton, and at an early
age entered the Army. He served in the Guinea, 1854-5, part of the time
as _Aide-de-Camp_ to the Comman