146 PERSIA IN 1903. 



of the British people," or to have learnt, as has 

 been said by a well-known writer, that it is indeed 

 in Asia that one realises best what Great Britain is, 

 and that it is there that one sees " the pick of her 

 sons living the larger and nobler life that men should 

 live." 1 



1 Mr E. F. Knight. 



