ored pictures from the tragedies of our life... The author sums this up in her preface, saying: "Here, behind the curtains, and in the turnings of time, how much we have seen and heard — what colors and chapters of this life in which you and I, O man, are floundering."

"And in truth, it is our duty to record some of these colors, with the good in them and the evil, that they may remain in the hearing of time, and with life."

And Mrs. Salwa Mahmasani Moumina is, in her stories, a writer with a purpose: she is not content to paint the scene with an artistic eloquence worthy of al-Jahiz, but through the flow of her description she points you to the places of vice and deformity, or to the places of virtue and beauty.

"With Life" — a new witness against those who say that woman has turned away from writing the story! (See the story of the issue, p. 15)

A collection of short sto-ries by Rabindranath Tagore, translated into Arabic by Yaacoub Hourani and published by the Ahliyya Printing and Publishing Establishment...

The stories are living, truthful pictures from the very heart of Indian life, in which India's greatest poet depicts the woes the Indian family endures, and the blind traditions that most often stand in the way of final happiness!

And there is the tranquility that accompanies the reader, by way of the harsh, stern discipline in which the Indians are reared and to whose rule they submit without rebellion... and there are the great Tagore's intimations of the deep human bent behind the outward face of the story —

Mr. Yaacoub Hourani has suc-

ceeded in the Arabizing of the stories, and without strain he car-ries the reader into the sprawling, contradictory atmospheres of India, with all the secrets and marvels that envelop them, and the wounds folded upon their pains —

One of the publications of the Lebanese Cénacle, written by Khalil Ramez Sarkis; as for the owner of the voice whose memory the Cénacle — and the author, and Lebanon behind them — wished to revive, he is the late Michel Chiha.

The style of Ustad Khalil Sarkis in this booklet is distinguished by the language that Ustad Michel Asmar described in his introduc-tion, saying:

"Khalil Ramez Sarkis, beside his merit in bringing the tones of this voice back to life, has the first merit of restoring it to us in a lofty and singular Arabic elegance, in which are joined the concision of the original, its depth, and the splendor of its casting, all together."