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r. THE first number of the second volume of this valuable Spanish review opens with an eloquent -tribute to the late lamented Don Julian Ribera y Tarrago, founder of the present vigorous movement for Arabic studies in Spain, who died on the _2nd of May 1934 at Puebla Larga, Valen• cia; including a brief survey of his life-work, from the pen of Don Emilio Garcia Gomez.
Thus we find he:re the actual text of lbn Hazm's short hut very striking essay entitled " Death, is it or is it not painful?" and two very welcome extracts from his " Epistle on the various aspects of salva• tion"; the second of which deals among other matters with the question whether the means of life were " lawful " to Muslims in the utterly un-Islamic political conditions which prevailed in Muslim Spain at the time.
" She has also, incidentally, given a clear general idea of Islam and Muslim history ; but it is the little intimate remarks in her diary which give the book such lively human interest, revealing as they do a truly Muslim spirit of goodwill toward every nation of the earth and every class of person.
Thus we are given a mental picture of Japan from the personal impressionsof the author before coming to the second part of the book, which is concerned with Japanese history, customs, ways of thought and institu• tions.