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HE accompanying portraits, taken from photographs, give us Mrs. Beerbohm Tree at various ages, and will be most interesting to her many admirers. As we look at them, we see the intelligent child growing into the gifted girl, and giving every promise of the cultivated, accomplished woman—a promise well fulfilled. Her marriage with Mr. Beerbohm Tree in 1882 was the occasion of her adopting the stage as a profession, of which she has ever since been an adornment. Her success has been very great in many and very different rôles. Hester Gould in "The Millionaire," Lady Ingram in "The Scrap of Paper," Belinda in "Engaged," and later on the Pompadour, the graceful Stella in "Captain Swift," and the loving daughter in "The Village Priest," are characters all fresh in the memory of all appreciative playgoers; and it is only to be regretted that Mrs. Tree has been unable to take part in the production at the Haymarket of "The Dancing Girl," which has created the greatest sensation of any play yet produced there. Mrs. Tree's return to the stage, which takes place this month, is a matter of congratulation to all playgoers who admire intelligence and beauty in dramatic art.

We are indebted for these portraits to the kindness of Mrs. Beerbohm Tree.