Show THE ARAB AND THE JEW I I An Oriental Critics View of Two of the Weekly 1npers of New York A Jewish professor who is versed in 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 language with Arabic characters charac-ters Look he said as he placed the two pretty sheets together at the peculiarities of the type used in them Tako notice of tho power breadth depth rectangularity and solidarity of i the Hebrew type Take notice of the Saracenic delicacy the ornateness the subtlety ingenuity and curveduess of tho Arabic type The contrast between them is very suggestive Again the reader who studies the style of the literary compositions compo-sitions in the two papers will notice that Hebrew thought is broad strong and upright like the Hebrew characters charac-ters while the Arabic thought is sinuous sinu-ous tenuous and ornate as the Arabic characters The differentiation of the Hebrew from the Arabic both in the forms of the type and in the expressions or tue minn will strum every critio who places tho two papers together looks at them closely and makes a study of their contents Yet both the Hebrew and the Arabs belong to the Semitic race and are monotheists History and circumstances must be taken into account ac-count when tracing the characteristic differences between the two branches of tho family New York Sun |