Books: Orientates

BEHIND MOROCCAN WALLS—Henriette Celarie; translated & adapted by Constance Lily Morris—Macmillan ($5). Mme Celarie, wife of a French officer in Morocco, whiled away long garrison days by finding out what she could about Moroccan women. From the two books which she wrote (Amours Morocaines, La Vie Mysterieuse des Harems) Translator Constance Lily Morris, herself a sojourner in Morocco, has culled this collection of true stories and sketches. Macmillan has printed it in a big folio; Artist Boris Artzybasheff has illustrated it in sumptuous black & white.

No aphrodisiac Arabian tales, these...

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