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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2644, 28 January 1908, Page 7

The late Shah laughed to scorn tho suggestion that lie should join in a movement to honour the n»?inory of Omar Khayyam, saying that thore were a hundred better poets in Persia. His father, however, once paid Tennyson a nice compliment, though it was done in a roundabout way. He was very anxious to see Sir Andrew Clarke, and bade him appear upon a certain day before him during his visit to England. Sir Andrew did not gry Instead he kept an appointment with Tennyson at Aldworth. "Now." he said, "if I had been one of his Persian subjects, in Persia the Shall would, like enough, have cut oIT my head !" When, however. hj" learned that the great physician had gone down into the country "to look alter the health of his old friend the poet"—the words are Tennysan's—the ShnJi made him one of the Or<fc*r of the Lion and the Sun. Which was rather a nice compliment of the douWe-taurelled order.