...the customs for you, then delivers you by private car to a hotel that assures your comfort and prepares you to take in what you are to see and do in the days ahead. Such was our case with the University Tourism Office — no sooner had we settled in at the Hotel Marseille than our guide had distributed to us the program of our sixteen-day stay in the French lands. This guide, and others in Grenoble and Lyon, were university people, sure of their information and ready for the questions of fellow university people. And in every town we visited, the tourism office presented us with a special booklet about it: the places a tourist would delight in visiting, with pictures of these places and historical commentary on them. A valuable arrangement in the art of tourism and summering.

And here we were in Paris! We opened our eyes wide, searching for the expected marvel. In truth, Paris does not look beautiful from the direction of the Gare de Lyon, and its houses are old and black. On the evening of our arrival I put in the mail a card to a friend of mine in Beirut, in which I told her: I have just arrived in Paris and I still see Beirut as the queen of beauty. Wait until I see the inside of it — yet a thrill ran through everyone, and their voices rose in Maurice Chevalier's song: Paris, I love you.

I tell you truly that I was astounded when I came to know Paris later on, for I had not believed it held all this depth. I had thought it meant seeing the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, and the adornments of fashion — I envied Paris the astonishment it produced in me, and I wished there were in the Arab lands a city that could pro-duce a reaction like this. There is

a museum for everything in Paris, for all the sciences of the earth: for nature, for modern inventions and theories; a museum for the animals of land and sea; museums for the ancient, medieval, and

modern arts; museums for cos-tume and for historical events;

museums for coins, for books, for weapons, for heroes and for chil-dren — two months would be too short for you if you wished to see