Recently Published Books

Dar al-Ilm lil-Malayin in Beirut has brought out the book "Little Things," a collection of stories by Miss Samira Azzam, and literary circles received it with an eagerness long in the waiting; for the author has practiced the writing and the translation of the story and mastered its modern arts, and from the first, readers were struck by her smooth, engaging style and her psychological treatment of delicate subjects that quiver with feeling and emotion.

The stories of "Little Things" pulse with life and warmth. All of them, or most, are happenings that Miss Azzam lived through, and her fertile imagination played its skillful part in adorning these happenings and bringing them out in a new and attractive frame, far from the affectation and silliness we meet with in the output of our modern storytellers.

• "You Poets": that is the name of the book that raised a great stir the day its author stood smashing the idols of outworn literature! And who might this philosopher man of letters be but Ameen Rihani? In response to the wish of many, this book has lately been reprinted. To Professor Albert Rihani, brother of Ameen, literature's thanks for his zeal and his devotion...

• "Dar Beirut" for printing and publishing favored us at the opening of this year with the book "The Crisis of Arab Thought," by Dr. Ishaq Musa al-Husayni.

The book is a collection of deep and discerning studies of the actual state of things in the Arab countries and of the crises in which their peoples flounder: what is the root of these crises, and what are the solutions and proposals for coming out of the great crisis in safety..

"The Crisis of Arab Thought" is a modern work of the mind, by one of the eminent leaders of thought in our world; and it is, moreover, worthy of reading and of study.