Show I Proper Honor I Paid b by Shah to fa F Fellow Poet Poel In his Memories of oC Eighty Years Years Chauncey M. M Depew tells the lie following follow follow- following In ing Browning the poet was present ata nta ot nt ota a creat great dinner given for the shah of ot Persia ct at Stafford house honse the tho home of ot the dul duke dulo o of ot Sutherland and ond the finest palace In London Every cry guest was asked In ID order to Impress the shah to come In ID all oil the tho decorations to which they were entitled The result was as asI that the peers came come In their robes which they otherwise would not have thought of ot wearing on such an occa occa- sion slon Browning Drowning said he had received a degree fit ct Oxford and that entitled him to a 3 scarlet cloak He was so outranked outranked out out- I ranked that he sat at the foot toot of the table The shah said snit to his host II Who Is that distinguished gentle gentle- gentleman man In the scarlet cloak at nt the other end of the table The host answered That Is one of our g d poets That Is no place for a Q poet poet remarked remarked re reo re- re marked the shah bring him film up here and let him sit ne next nest t to me So at thero the ro royal nl command the poet t took toh k the cent Cat of ot honor The shah 11 said to Browning I am mighty i n l 1 f IT you near me for I am n r i 1 T. T r. r |