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9(S Tunis Subscribers 2 India Subscribers 2 GRAND TOTAL 424 Summarizing the above figures and comparing them with last year, we find that in Egypt we had 272 subscribers against 271 the pre-vious year, in Iraq 72 against 26, in Palestine 40 against 58, in Syria 18 against 8, in the Sudan 13 against 15, in Transjordania 3 against the same number, in each of Sumatra, Tunis and India 2 against none. The total is 424 just little over last year's figure. In addition to these paid sub-scribers we have some 120 more copies distributed freely every issue to leading controllers, inspectors and others in the Ministry of Education. Owing to financial limitations, we could not advertise the Journal, nor have we been able to carry- out any systematic plan for increasing the number of our subscribers. Through persuùal touch with ourfriends in Iraq and Syria we have been able without incurring ar;y expense to raise the figures in these two countries. In addition, we had free publicity in various papers and monthly periodicals in Egypt and abroad. To illustrate:- 1) A leading newspaper in Ispahan published in Persina a whole article entitled "self-education" which had appeared in our December issue, mentioning where it was reproduced and translated from. 2) A leading Syrian periodical "Al Hadith" published in Damascus recommended to teachers and all those engaged in education our Journal, adding that "it is the only magazine in Arabic that deals exclusively with educational matters as they exist today in all the countries of the civilized world." This recommendation was made by the editor out of his own voluntary will, as no acquaintance whatever exists between him and the, editors of our Journal. 3) A similar recommendation was given by a Palestinian paper "Al Killia al Arabia". 4) An Indian circular -- in English - issued by the Department of Education of Bombay to the schools and colleges of the Province gave a list of periodicals which the Department recommended, and among the list was our Journal of Modern Education, the only publication in Arabic in that list. 5) An Egyptian monthly "Tarbia al Badania" copied for its leading article a ten page article from the fourth issue of our Journal, giving credit to the Magazine. 6) A whole column was devoted to our dournal in an Egyptian wee d r magazine called "Al Funun". 7) Other references and reproductions of material from our Journal in Balagh, Dar-el-Hilal, etc.