Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame his demand that Scotland provide

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

first President of the Royal Society

'Committed for Trial'

Illustration from A tour in Scotland and voyage to the Hebrides

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

Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame his demand that Scotland provide'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).