We have now in Arabic about eighty children's hymns, and a large number of tracts and story books designed for children.

We also publish an Illustrated Children's Monthly, called the "Koukab es Subah," "The Morning Star," and the children read it with the greatest eagerness.
The Koran, which is the standard of classic Arabic, cannot be changed, and hence can never be a book for children.

It cannot be a family book, or a women's book.

It cannot attract the minds of the young, with that charm which hangs around the exquisitely simple and beautiful narratives of the Old and New Testament.

It is a gem of Arabic poetry, but like a gem, crystalline and unchanging.