Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame A neat play on words

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

first President of the Royal Society

Morris dancers at Thaxted in Essex perform on the village green

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

Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame A neat play on words'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).