Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame A group of people watch

A group of people watch from a hill as the cars pass on the road below

Morris dancers at Thaxted in Essex perform on the village green

A neat play on words as Punch illustrates the popularity of golf in Scotland as well as increasing meteorological knowledge

his demand that Scotland provide him with military assistance against France led to the Scots refusal and the foundation of the 'Auld Alliance' between them and the French

reluctant to accept this barely tamed 'gift'

Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame A group of people watch'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).