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BAR HARBOR , a well-known summer resort of See also:Hancock See also:county, See also:Maine, U.S.A., an unincorporated See also:village, in the See also:town-See also:ship of See also:Eden, on Frenchman's See also:Bay, on the E. See also:side of See also:Mount See also:Desert See also:Island, about 45 M. S.E. of See also:Bangor. Pop. of the township (1900) 4399; (1910) 4441; of the village (1910), about 2000, greatly increased during the summer See also:season. Bar Harbor is served by the Maine Central railway and by steamship lines to New See also:York, See also:Boston, See also:Portland and other ports. The summer See also:climate is cool, usually too cool for See also:sea-bathing, but there is it large open-See also:air See also:salt See also:water See also:swimming See also:bath. Rugged mountains from r000 to 1500 ft. in height, a See also:coast with deep indentations and lined with bold cliffs, a sea dotted with rocky islets, clear lakes, sparkling rivulets, deep See also:gorges, and wooded glens are features of the attractive scenery here and in the vicinity. Several See also:fine hotels and a number of costly residences occupy a See also:plateau along the See also:shore and the hillsides farther back. The Kebo Valley See also:Club has fine See also:golf links here; and since 1900 an See also:annual See also:horse show and See also:fair has been held at See also:Robin See also:Hood See also:Park at the See also:foot of See also:Newport See also:Mountain. Bar Harbor is usually a summer See also:rendezvous of the See also:North See also:Atlantic See also:Squadron of the See also:United States See also:Navy. The name Bar Harbor, which displaced See also:East Eden, was suggested by the bar which appears at See also:low water between it and Bar Island. Although the first summer hotel was built here in 1855, Bar Harbor's development as a summer resort began about 1870, after some artists had visited the See also:place, and made it widely known through their pictures. (See MOUNT DESERT.) BAR-HEBRAEUS or See also:ABU`L-See also:FARM, a maphrian or catholicus of the Jacobite (Monophysite) See also:Church in the 13th See also:century, and (in Dr.

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Wright's words) " one of the most learned and versatile men that See also:Syria ever produced." Perhaps no more industrious compiler of knowledge ever lived. See also:Simple and uncritical in his modes of thought, and apparently devoid of any striking originality, he collected in his numerous and elaborate See also:treatises the results of such See also:research in See also:theology, See also:philosophy, See also:science and See also:history as was in his See also:time possible in Syria. Most of his See also:works were written in See also:Syriac, but some few in Arabic, which had See also:long before his time supplanted Syriac as a living speech. The son of a physician of Jewish descent, Bar-Hebraeus was See also:born in 1226 at Malatiah on the upper See also:Euphrates. His youth was passed in the troublous times of the Mongol advance into western See also:Asia, and his See also:father eventually retired to See also:Antioch, where Bar-Hebraeus completed his See also:education. In 1246 he was ordained at Tripolis as Jacobite See also:bishop of Gubas near See also:Malatia, and a See also:year later was transferred to the neighbouring See also:diocese of Lakabhin, whence in 1253 he passed to be bishop of See also:Aleppo. Deposed almost immediately by an ecclesiastical See also:superior on See also:account of disputes about the patriarchate, he was restored to his see in 1258, and in 1264 was promoted by the See also:patriarch See also:Ignatius III. to be maphrian—the next See also:rank below that of patriarch—an See also:office which he held till his See also:death at See also:Maragha in 1286. He seems to have been a See also:model of devotion to his ecclesiastical duties and to have won the respect of all parties in his diocese. It is mainly as an historian that Bar-Hebraeus interests the See also:modern student. His See also:great See also:historical work—the Syriac See also:Chronicle —is made up of three parts. The first' is a history of See also:secular events from the Creation to his own time, and in its later portions gives valuable See also:information regarding the history of See also:south-east See also:Europe and western Asia. A compendium in Arabic of this secular history was made by Bar-Hebraeus under the See also:title al-Mukhtasar fi `d-Duwal (Compendious History of the Dynasties).

The second and third parts 2 of the Chronicle See also:

deal with the history of the Church, the second being mainly concerned with the patriarchate of Antioch, and the third with the eastern See also:branch of the Syrian Church. Of See also:special value to theologians is the Ausar Raze (Storehouse of Secrets), a See also:critical and doctrinal commentary on the See also:text of the Scriptures. Of this many portions have been edited by various scholars, and a valuable study of the See also:work, together with a See also:biography and estimate of its author, has been published by J. Gottsberger (Barhebraus and See also:seine Scholien zur heiligen Schrift, See also:Freiburg i. B., 'goo). A full See also:list of Bar-Hebraeus's other works, and of See also:editions of such of them as have been published, will be found in W. Wright's Syriac Literature, pp. 268-281. The more important of them are:—(r) Kethdbad dhe-Bhabhatha (See also:Book of the Pupils of the Eyes), a See also:treatise on See also:logic or dialectics; (2) Hewalh Hekhmethd (See also:Butter of See also:Wisdom), an exposition of the whole philosophy of See also:Aristotle; (3) Sullaka-Haunanaya (Ascent of the Mind), a treatise on See also:astronomy and r Imperfectly edited and translated by Bruns and See also:Kirsch in 1789. There is now a better edition by Bedjan (See also:Paris, 1890). 2 Edited and translated by Abbeloos and Lamy (Paris and See also:Louvain, 1872-187, ,cosmography, edited and translated by F. Nau (Paris, 1899) ; (4) various medical works; (5) Kethabha dhe-Sembe (Book of Rays), a treatise on See also:grammar; (6) ethical works; (7) poems; (8) Kethabha dhe-Thunnaye Meghahlzekhane (Book of Entertaining Stories), edited and translated by E.

A. W. Budge (See also:

London, 1897). (N.

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