In spite of the war and the consequent cessation of the work of publishing original texts in the cuneiform alphabet of Ugarit,' the study of these priceless records has continued actively. The appearance of Cyrus H. Gordon's Ugaritic Grammar (Rome, 1940)2 will have a stabilizing effect on North Canaanite studies, since there will henceforth be a standard grammatical treatise to which scholars can refer, both for their own information and for the information of others. Since the appearance of our latest general sketch of the progress of these studies three years ago,3 there have been a number of special articles published,4 to which readers may be referred for the high lights of recent advance in the field in question. If and when it again becomes possible to pursue scholarly research on the Continent, we may expect to see the publication of additional parts of the Baal Epic, of two more tablets of the Keret Epic, and of several hundred tablets and fragments, mainly from a public building excavated by Schaeffer in his last campaign at Ras Shamrah.