Mr. Jawad Khalil, cultural attaché at the Iraqi Legation in Beirut, has kindly favored The Woman's Voice with this delightful article on his visit to the great Lebanese sculptor Youssef Howayek.

Circumstances brought us together in Beirut, as they had brought us together before in the two diwans; there was a greeting, there was talk, there was an appointment, and then a meeting. And the late Shawqi did not have us in mind when I met that gallant man whom I respect for the praiseworthy qualities that set him apart from all his peers, just as all who know his merit and his worth respect and revere him. I stayed as his guest at Kfar Helda, after we had traveled two beautiful roads: the first, the coastal road between Beirut and Tripoli; the other, between Tripoli and the fertile plains of the Koura, then the heights of the mountains of North Lebanon and their winding bends — those bends whose like one of my worthy brethren, visiting Lebanon for the first time, named the bends of paradise... And in truth they are just that: a piece cut out of paradise, and it became Lebanon.

The real motive for this journey was something other than the visit owed among friends whom time