Show tue THE PRESS IN THE EAST the literary arabs of beyrooty have published h tho first number of an oriental journal in arabic there are sixteen articles twelve of which are by native gentlemen sad and four from the pens of american Ameri pan missionaries who take a lively interest in the work and were very active in establishing the society thit that publishes i it t the activity of this society is without parallel in the east members of the american oriental Ori antal society si biety may now receive a aljournal of a scientific charae character te tl in i one of the most important of the te languages to which they de devote vote their attention I 1 I 1 |