Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame actor and writer

actor and writer

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

Illustration from A tour in Scotland and voyage to the Hebrides

reluctant to accept this barely tamed 'gift'

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 actor and writer'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).