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1 See Missionary Herald for 1827, pp. 71-76, 97-101. He was at length deprived of his books, and severely threatened by the Patriarch. Asaad says, in his narrative: "A friend told me, that the Patriarch wondered how I should pretend that I held to the Christian religion, and still converse in such abusive terms against it.

Behind pauperism there were great social questions, the discontent and misery of great masses of the labouring population. Whatever reforms might be made in other parts of the natural order, here were difficulties enough to task the wisdom of legislators and speculators upon legislative principles. Canning's Political Correspondence, i. 71-76. 12th December 1826. Bentham's Works, v. p. 370.

Cleveland Medical Gazette, 1896-7, xii, 257-264. The earliest contribution to medical literature in the United States. Janus, 1899, p. 540. A review of the Vital Statistics of Cleveland during the last decennium. Cleveland Medical Journal, 1902, i, 71-76. Epidemics of typhoid fever in Cleveland. Cleveland Medical Journal, 1904, iii, 208-210. The mortality statistics of the twelfth census.

Isaac Bird, but the reader is referred in the margin to more ample sources of information.2 1 Written also Asaad el-Shidiak, and Asaad esh-Shidiak. 2 See Missionary Herald for 1827, pp. 68, 71-76, 97-101, 129-136, 169-177, 268-271, 369-372; for 1828, pp. 16-19, 115-119, 165, 373, 375; for 1829, pp. 15, 47, 111, 115; and The Martyr of Lebanon, by Rev. Isaac Bird, Boston, 1864, pp. 208.