Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame first President of the Royal

first President of the Royal Society

Illustration from A tour in Scotland and voyage to the Hebrides

reluctant to accept this barely tamed 'gift'

actor and writer

Morris dancers at Thaxted in Essex perform on the village green

Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame first President of the Royal'Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade', 1904. 'Scene: the Board of Trade. Time: office hours in the early 'eighties. Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade are taken unawares by their President, Sir Josiah Chamberlain'. Illustration from The Poets Corner, by Max Beerbohm, (London, 1904).