New and Old

• "New and Old" — a book issued by "Dar al-Thaqafa" in Beirut, by Mr. Marun Abboud. It is a precious book, running to 320 pages, comprising studies, criticism, and discussions of the elite of our contemporary men of letters, such as Farah Antun, Gibran and Mayy, al-Shidyaq, Father Lammens, Omar Fakhoury, Abu Shabaka, Fouad Suleiman,

Abd al-Qadir al-Mazini, Ali Mahmoud Taha, Khalil Mutran, al-Alayili, Said Takieddine, Amin Nakhle, and others.

And when Mr. Marun Abboud speaks to us of these men of letters, he speaks in that unique critical style of his in which no one can keep pace with him, and with a fearless boldness, which gives his book "New and Old" a distinguished weight. In the course of these studies he acquaints us with the development of the literary renaissance in Lebanon and beyond, and with the tendencies to which it is given to flourish and endure, or to fade and go out...

The man of letters Mr. Marun Abboud, with his matchless critic's pen, is a pillar for Lebanon and the Arabs in the world of their poetry and their letters...