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

reluctant to accept this barely tamed 'gift'

King George V at the Cup Final

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

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).