Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame Morris dancers at Thaxted in

Morris dancers at Thaxted in Essex perform on the village green

reluctant to accept this barely tamed 'gift'

'Committed for Trial'

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

Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame Morris dancers at Thaxted in'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).