In December, 1885, the cabinet system of government was established, and Mori Arinori became the first Minister of Education of Japan.

At the end of each book, the boys report to Hitchcock, and sometimes give him a memento of their case.

Maalouf hopes that one day he can call all of the Middle East his homeland, and that his grandson will find his book a strange memento of a time when these arguments had to be put forward.

Why reject the improvements that human ingenuity has provided to us? I have an old fountain pen that belonged to my grandmother it s a nice memento of her, but I wouldn t dream of using it to write this column.