— The Great Shadow — And this is a collection of stories just brought out to us by Dar al-Sharq al-Jadid, by Miss Samira Azzam.

The stories of the collection are distinguished by brilliant psychological analysis, by way of dialogue and inward self-questioning, and by attention to the fine, telling details that throw over the characters a true garment taken from our everyday life.

In most of the stories the humane bent shines forth, breathed into them by the tender heart of a woman and her being moved by certain spectacles of misery — all this in a graceful phrasing that forms a narrative style which has attained a distinguished rank of excellence and artistic maturity.

"The Great Shadow" — a sweet necklace for our Arabic library.