1. Because the majority of Arabic works produced in Palestine in the Mandate did not show the name of the publisher, references to such works include only the date and place of publication.
2. The biographical data on al-Tamimi comes from an interview with his brother Sa'id al-Tamimi on February 22, 1964; that on Arif al-Arif from a bibliographical sheet prepared by al-Arif at the request of the present writer; that on Zu'aitir from Dhikra Adil Zu'aitir (In memory of Adil Zu'aitir) Nablus, 1957, pp. 7-11. For reasons of space Zu'aitir's work will not be discussed at length in this article; an account of his writing is included in the author's manuscript, op. cit.
3. Arif al-Arif, Unpublished Memoirs, May 1932. Of the elite of writers in Palestine, those mentioned earlier and Mohammed Darwazah are also on record as having joined in the Arab Revolt.
4. Out of a total school-age population of about 38,000 boys and 35,000 girls, government, private and foreign schools together enrolled only 13,000 boys and 4,000 girls. About 6,000 boys and 1,500 girls were attending government schools, while private and foreign institutions took charge of about 7,000 boys and 2,300 girls. These statistics were gathered by Ahmed Samih al-Khalidi, Principal of the Arab College in Jerusalem, cited in M. F. Abcarius, Palestine (London: Hutchinson and Company, 1946), pp. 101-2.
5. Out of a total school-age population of 157,000 boys and 144,250 girls, government, private and foreign schools together took charge of 74,164 boys and 28,698 girls. This means that only 34 per cent of the school-age population (47 per cent in the case of boys, 20 per cent in that of girls) was registered in schools. Attendance at government schools was 49,373 boys and 13,766 girls; that at non-government schools totalled 24,791 boys and 15,932 girls. Hawliyat al-Thaqafa al-' Arabiya (The Encyclopaedia of Arab Education), ed. by Sati al-Husri (Cairo: Arab League Publications, 1949), Vol. II, pp. 13-14.