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

first President of the Royal Society

Morris dancers at Thaxted in Essex perform on the village green

Illustration from A tour in Scotland and voyage to the Hebrides

'Committed for Trial'

reluctant to accept this barely tamed 'gift'

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).