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During the next few years young Pickthall spent some time at Neuchatel studying French and going for walking tours in the Jura, then he lived in Flo• rence learning Italian: and when at home he studied German and' Spanish.
After the Great War, during which he wrote Tales from Five Chimneys (1915), The House of War (1916) and Knights of Arab,• (1917), Pickthall tried for some time his luck with an "Islamic In• formation Bureau" in London.
The following years were spent in the midst of various duties the editorship of ISLAMIC CUL TL' RE; journeys to London as Secretary co the Hyderabad delegation co the First Round Table Conference or as companion of the sons of the Nizarn ; the princip.
Ch. ristiaan Snouk Hurgronje, one of the lead• ing orientalists of our time, died at his home in Leyden after several weeks of illness, at chi: age of nearly 89" years.
Two years later began the second and most important period of his life.
The years he occupied the Chair of Arabic passed in teaching and writing a number of smaller articles on Islamic subjects, collected under the editorship of Prof.
His great works were written in the first and second periods of his life.
. InLeyden he has founded an Institute, bearing his name, for the purpose of collecting materials for the study of Islam which he was very happy to show his friends, including myself, on the occasion of the Oriental Congress at Leyden in 1932.