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Communications, postage paid, will be gratefully received. and the names of subscribers will be recorded, with a view to the commencement of the Work as soon as practicable. Every subscriber will be allowed One Dollar on his own subscription, for each additional subscriber he will procure, and for which he will become responsible.

Subscribers are respectfully requested to forward their names, without unnecessary delay.

P. S. The Editorial Association will consist of gentlemen belonging to the different professions, who will give special attention to the departments with which they are most familiar, while the principal Editor will be responsible for the general character and variety of the work.

New-York, April 1., 1840.

ORIENTAL TYPE.

Ir gives us pleasure to inform our readers, that one of the greatest difficulties under which American scholars have heretofore labored in the cultivation of the Oriental Languages, especially the cognate dialects of the Hebrew, is now likely to be removed.

Hitherto the necessary elementary works could not be procured, unless by importing them at an enormous expense from Germany; for however we might possess scholars capable of preparing suitable Grammars, Lexicons and Chrestomathies to these tongues, there have been nowhere, except at Andover and New Haven, the requisite facilities for publishing them. In New-York, it was scarcely possible, within a very short period, to have even a few words or sentences set up in decent Hebrew type. But this reproach is now rolled away.

Through the enterprise of Mr. J. F. Trow, one of our most accomplished printers, New-York may boast of the richest fonts of Oriental Type, of the most exquisite model, to be found on this side of the Atlantic.

From the celebrated foundry of Tauchnitz in Leipsic he has imported an ample assortment in the various languages embraced in the accompanying specimen, viz., the Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, Ethiopic, Syriac and Arabic, and is prepared to execute works requiring these varieties of letter to any extent. To many of the readers of the Repository we presume we could not well present a more interesting or attractive page.

Greek.

Ταῦτα ὀρθῶς μὲν ἐκεῖνος εἶπε πρὸς τοὺς μεθ ̓ ἑαυτὸν στρατη γοὺς, οἷς παροδον ἐπὶ τὰς ὕστερον πράξεις ἔδωκεν ἐξελάσας τὸν βάρβαρον, καὶ τὴν ̔Ελλάδα ἐλευθερώσας

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أَحَدٍ حَتَّى يَقُولَا إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ فِتْنَةٌ فَلَا تَكُمْ فَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ مِنْهُمَا مَا يُفَرِّقُونَ بِهِ بَيْنَ الْمَرْءِ وَزَوْجِهِ وَمَا هُم بِضَارِينَ بِهِ مِنْ أَحَدٍ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ وَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ مَا يَضُرُّهُمْ وَلَا

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Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1840, by William R. Peters, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

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