The Brethren of Culture Society's Reception in Honor of Mr. Mahmoud Taymour

• The reception held by the Brethren of Culture Society in honor of the Egyptian storyteller Mr. Mahmoud Taymour was of the utmost brilliance and good order.

The club of the Society for Securing Work for the Refugees of Palestine, for all its spaciousness, was packed with the invited guests, ladies and gentlemen of letters and of standing, on the evening of Wednesday, May 5.

Mr. Mohammad Jamil Beyhum, president of the society, received them one by one and presented them to the guest of honor, Lebanon's guest, assisted in this by several members of the society, distinguished ladies and gentlemen. Then Mr. Rashad Darghouth, in the name of the society and at the president's charge, delivered a most agreeable address; then Mr. Salem, the Minister of National Education, rose and delivered a speech befitting the occasion, and decorated the guest of honor with the Order of the Cedar in the rank of Officer.

Here Mr. Taymour stood and expressed his abundant thanks to His Excellency the President of the Republic and to the Lebanese government, which had been pleased to confer this decoration upon him, and turned, in kindly words, to thanking the Lebanese for the openhandedness and honor he had found among them.

After refreshments and delicious sweets had been passed around, Mr. Taymour yielded to the wish of those present and read them one of his magnificent stories, which was the crowning close of the evening.