The Arab And The Jew

A Jewisn proiessor wno ís versea m the oriental languages looked over two weekly papers printed in this city, one of them in the Hebrew language, with Hebrew characters, and the other in the Arabic langnage, with Arabic chaxacters. "Look, " he said as he placed the two pretty sheets together, "at the peculiarities of the type nsed in them. Take notice of the power, breadth, depth, rectangularity and solidarity of the Hebrew type. Take notice of the Saracenic delicacy, the ornateness, the subtlety, ingenuity and curvedness of the Arabic type. "The contrast between them is very suggestive. Again, the reader who studies the style of the literary compositions in the two papers will notice that Hebrew thought is broad, strong and npright, like the Hebrew characters, vhile the Arabic thonght is sinuons, teunons and ornato, as the Arabic charactera. The differentiation of the Hebrt;. 1'voia the Arabic, both in the forrns of the type and in theexpressions of the nünd, will strike every critic who places the two papers together, looks at them closely'and makts a stndy of their contents. Yet both the Kebrew and the Arr.be belong to the Semitic race and are monotheists. History and circnmstances must be taken into account when tracing the characteristic differences between the two branches of the family. "-