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HE present is a particularly fitting moment for the publication of the photographs of the German Emperor and Empress at various ages of their lives, when their memorable visit is still fresh in the memory of all, and while the shop-windows are crowded with their portraits. Nothing could be more interesting than the first photograph here given of the German Empress—the only one taken at an early age known to exist—which shows her as a little girl of ten years old, taken when her father, the Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, was entirely undertaking her education and that of her younger sisters. In the second likeness we see her when sought in marriage by the Emperor, at twenty-two, and in the last surrounded by five sturdy little sons.