THERE is so much colour and life in Malta. "You seem to belong to the present and yet one has only to enter St. John's to be surrounded by the ghosts of the ages of chivalry".

Notabile is a city in which one can picture St. Francis. St. Paul preached where your Cathedral stands. Then you have your Stone Age temples, one older than the other. It makes one see Malta, as if it were rising from the waters and making her glorious passage through the ages. It is one of the most wonderful places in the world. I mean it most sincerely, and to think that all we knew of it until this morning was that it is a tiny, tiny island'.

That is what tourists have said so many times without number after a few hours in Malta. They go away, these tourists of the round cruises, with such a craving to know more, such an enthusiasm to come back, to tell all their friends that they Pat on no account miss Malta, and their last word is: ' Oh, if we could show some of all this beauty, it's so wonderful'.

That wish can now be gratified. EDWARD CARUANA DINGLI - A son of Malta, a soldier, a distinguished artist whose name is known wherever art is appreciated, has come forward, and full of that consuming ambition of every true Maltese to assert the dignity of his race, to extol the land of his birth, he has limned a series of paintings that tell the tale of Malta as nothing else can tell it. With all the art of a master, with all the knowledge of a son who treats of his own home, he has given us enough of the life and colour of Malta to reveal to the world the beauties of this little island. -'No side of Malta has been left out and the printers have spared no pains to faithful and artistic reproductions'.