"On the Paths of Life"

Last month there appeared a book by Mr. Rashad Darghouth, "On the Paths of Life" — a collection of fifteen short tales which the author composed during the last two years, drawing their principal events from his surroundings, his history, and the legends of his country, taking inspiration from them all, and weaving out of his fertile imagination all manner of captivating pictures that carry you, light of heart and contented, into their world — and there you are, borne along with them, glad to follow their happenings and to keep the author company to the very end, without weariness... All this in eloquent phrasing and a delicacy of style in which few of our modern storytellers can keep pace with him.

Through the stories of "On the Paths of Life" you meet the soul of a bold, free-ranging writer who does not scruple to take up our old inherited traditions with criticism and censure, praising what is sound in them and demolishing what is false with his sharp pickaxe — ending, most often, with a high ideal to which he discreetly hints that we should hold fast.

The author is long practiced in the writing of the short tale, and has three collections of them: "The Sheikh's Sin," "Hajj Mujbih," and "The Dove of the Valley."