Lebanon lent this splendid reception their accustomed graciousness and geniality.

• Her Majesty the Queen Mother of Egypt, accompanied by two of her daughters, has made a journey through Europe; they passed through Geneva, spent a few days in the city of Cannes, and then visited the well-known towns of the azure coast.

• The American newspaper al-Sameer reports that the man of letters Amin Badr has translated the poems of al-Mutanabbi into the English language. Mr. Badr is the owner of a business in St. Petersburg, Florida.

• Dr. Bayard Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, and his esteemed wife Mrs. Mary Dodge invited a group of the University's professors to a tea party, to make the acquaintance of Dr. Allen Whipple, a member of the University's Board of Trustees in America, and Mr. Robert Ogden, director of cultural affairs in Syria and Lebanon.

• The literary Miss Ihsan Dimashqiyah has passed the examinations of the Lebanese Baccalaureate, philosophy section. She is one of our Lebanese girls for whom a smiling future is expected. To her, all our congratulations.

• The accomplished woman of letters Miss Salwa Dimashqiyah al-Sa'id has arrived from London, and is staying at the home of her honored father, Badr Bey Dimashqiyah. The Woman's Voice bids her a handsome welcome, and wishes her a pleasant stay in the homeland that esteems and respects her.

• A telegram from New York has reached the American University of Beirut stating that the sons of the late Ni'ma Yafet, of São Paulo, Brazil, have donated the funds needed to erect the University's new library building within two or three years, in perpetuation of the memory of their father, a man of benign influence.

• The friends of Miss Nadia al-Boustany, a young lady of the most refined breeding, received the news of her engagement to Mr. Gabriel al-Arab, one of the fine young men of Port Said, with great joy and delight. To the two honored betrothed, our sincere congratulations.

• A new class of our educated young women has graduated from

the Lebanese Women Teachers' College, foremost among them the literary Miss Jenny Hamwi. To our excellent women educators our congratulations, and may they render the sincere service the country expects of them in the two fields of education and teaching.

• God has favored Mr. Abdullah Lutfi and his gracious wife with a baby girl, whom he has named "Juman." May God make her a daughter of safety in the shelter of her honored parents.

• The Arab Women's Union held a memorial gathering for the late lamented Huda Salibi Doumit, in West Hall at the American University of Beirut, on Saturday, November 16, 1946, at half past three in the afternoon. A distinguished company of literary women and men spoke, recounting the virtues of the departed: Mrs. Rose Shahfa, president of the Union, Mrs. Julia Dimashqiyah, and Messrs. Anis al-Maqdisi, Mikhail Naimy, and Georges Baz. The gathering closed with a tender word from the family of the departed.

• Miss Su'ad al-Zayn, agent of the magazine The Woman's Voice in Jaffa, Palestine, gave a tea party at her flourishing home on the occasion of the passage through Jaffa of Mr. Youssef al-Khal, general editorial director of Dar al-Kitab, on his way to Jerusalem. It was a most charming party, attended by a select company of educated young people.

On the same occasion, the Orthodox Club held a literary evening in the club's hall in Acre, at which Mr. al-Khal recited selections from his poetry,

together with a passage from his play "Herodias," which has not yet been published.

• From the news of the Mahjar: Miss Olga Khoury, one of our Lebanese emigrant daughters in the United States, has won the world championship in typewriting, having typed 242 words in one minute.

It is worth mentioning that Miss Khoury is one of the girls of Marjayoun, and was President Roosevelt's private secretary.

• In a past issue of The Woman's Voice we noted the arrival in Lebanon of a group of our accomplished young women, after they had completed their studies in the Nile Valley. Among them is Miss In'am al-Saghir, who has come to the service of her first homeland, Lebanon, bearing the degree of licentiate in philosophy after three years of study at Fouad I University in Cairo. May Miss In'am's appointment at the Makassed College of Beirut satisfy her ambition, and may the field open wide before her and before her educated companions, that they may carry out their mission of reform in the fullest manner.

• Miss Maryam Amis has kindly accepted to represent the magazine The Woman's Voice in the city of Sidon and the South. We ask our subscribers there to ease her task in managing the magazine's affairs.

• Our excellent colleague al-Qistas, which is published in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, has entered its tenth year. We congratulate its proprietor and editor-in-chief, Mr. Farid Salim, wishing him continued progress and success.