I received the shock of your death with nothing to prepare me for it; my heart ached, I grieved, and life lost its savor for me.

And I learned that you had wilted and withered in a slow dying, and left our perishing abode in the prime of life and the flower of youth.

Thus did the sun of your life sink below the horizon; but your lofty spirit and your high principles remain shining in the sky of immortality.

You, Salwa, are a spiritual compound of inspired feeling and composed calm, together with rare wit and sincerity. Nothing was ever known of you but frankness and truthfulness. Your spirit expressed a nature ruled by moral feeling; you were given a great human readiness, one that proclaims, before the shows of material power, the rights of conscience and of human dignity, in unceasing struggle. You shared in bettering woman's condition, drawing strength from that spiritual inspiration compounded of the love of goodness, truth, and beauty.

You grew up in a noble, free house; you read all manner of books and magazines, and you discussed diverse

my wing, without which I

...opinions and beliefs; you went ahead of your time, you broke away from the strait-laced men-tality, and you believed in reform and renewal.

Salwa took up the profession of teaching, giving the young nourishment from her spirit, knowledge from her learning, and from her conduct a good example for the girls of the future; she was the best of teachers in faithfulness, the loftiest of them in manner, the most fragrant of them in repute.

And she turned to public life, battling in the wide social field, performing woman's mission toward her sister woman with heart and ardor, extending a help-ing hand to most of the charitable associations, working with hand, pen, and tongue — writer, orator, and benefactress.

She was my colleague at the congress of the Social Studies Seminar in Egypt, and I found her the best of friends, offering

her views with a force and a suppleness that made me love and respect her.

Dr. Zaki al-Naqqash, director of the Makassed Islamic College in Beirut, says:

The Makassed Islamic College

in Beirut feels the blow of the painful calamity that has befallen us in the death of the gifted writer, the late Salwa al-Mahmasani Moumina.

We measure the gravity of the loss in her, and feel the greatness of the void she has left in our circles. She never shrank, God rest her, from coming to our club whenever occasion offered, or whenever she received from us an invitation to take part in serving the noble enterprise of the Islamic Maqasid — with the refined letters that distinguished her, the exact knowledge with which she was equipped, and the wide experience she had gained in educational and social affairs.

How often she spoke to the young men of the Arab Society, and to the youths of the Parliamentary Forum at our college, as the virtu-ous educator, the gifted woman of letters, and the Arab woman who believed in her nation's history, the reality of its nationhood, and the future of its homelands.

Whatever we may forget, we shall not forget her splendid part in the days when she joined certain men and women of letters in giving opinion and judgment in the composition and oratory competitions we were accustomed to hold among the pupils of the upper classes and those of the middle classes.

How often she excelled in her delivery, struck the very heart of truth in her analyses, and won the admiration of those present by her fine logic and the soundness of her taste.

Mrs. Heneni Tarcha, president of the Lebanese Women's League:

Whenever I think of the dear departed Salwa, tears choke me; her memory is precious to my heart as one complete and indivis-ible whole. She was, God rest her, one of the devoted companions of the struggle, and latterly my deputy in the League