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 Hallé'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