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Gabriel. The third period, extending to 1847, 

 deals, in Consuelo and The Sin of M. Antoinc, 

 with rather uninteresting political speculations. 

 In the fourth period she returned to her love 

 of nature and wrote exquisite descriptions of 

 rural life in Little Fadctte and The Snow Man. 

 During the last years of her life she dealt once 

 more with analysis of character and emotions 

 in such novels as The Marquis of Villemcr and 

 Flamaraudc. She had an extraordinary sym- 

 pathy for her fellow beings, an almost unsur- 

 passed ability in portraying the progress of love 

 and the artist's genius for creating glowing de- 

 scriptions. 



Consult Doumic's George Sand: Some Aspects 

 uf Her Life and Work (translation by Hallard). 



SAN'DALWOOD, a costly, fragrant wood 

 yielded I species of trees growing in 



the East Indies and other tropical islands. The 

 variety most generally seen is white sandal- 

 wood, but yellow and red sandalwoods are also 

 marketed. Sandal wood is used in making cabi- 

 nets and chests and small objects of an orna- 

 mental nature, such as fans and fancy boxes. 

 Incense sticks are also made from it. Be- 

 cause of the heavy fragrance of the wood in- 

 sects will keep away from clothing stored in 

 sandal wood chests. Sandal wood oil, obtained 

 by distillation, is used in perfumes and me- 

 dicinally. The heartwood of red sandalwood 

 yields a coloring matter used in dyeing wool; 

 it is also the basis of certain tooth powders. 

 SAND BUR, or BUR GRASS, an annoying 

 prickly weed, native to the plains of the West- 

 ern United States, and found growing in sandy 

 regions in almost all temperate and tropical 

 countries. The plant has stems from one to 

 two feet long, bearing spikes of ten to twenty 

 spiny burs which cause painful wounds when 

 thry ont'T the flesh. Sometimes the burs be- 

 come so matted and entangled in the wool of 

 a sheep that the whole fleece is useless for com- 

 mercial purposes. A species common to 

 South is called the cockspur, and is no less 

 troublesome than the sand bur. 



SAND ' ERLING, a bird belonging to the same 

 family as the snipes and sandpipers, but dis- 

 tinguished from these birds in having three 

 toes. It is a true beach bird, and is usually 

 found on shores washed by the sea; its food 

 consists of s: :ish and marine insects 



washed up by the tide. In America the sand- 

 erling breeds in the Arctic regions, but after 

 August it winters from California and Texas to 

 Southern South America and various Pacific 

 islands. It is about eight inches long ; in w 



the plumage is gray on the upper parts and 

 pure white beneath. The three or four eggs are 

 of a brownish-olive color, speckled with darker 



SANDERLINGS 



markings, and are laid in a tuft of weeds, or in 

 a depression lined with dry grass. 



SAN DIEGO, dea'go, CAL., the county seat 

 of San Diego County and a health and pleasure 

 resort, is situated in the extreme southwestern 

 corner of the United States, 125 miles southeast 

 of Los Angeles. It is located on the only land- 

 locked, deep-water harbor between the Panama 

 Canal and San Francisco Bay, and is the home 

 port of important steamship lines operating ves- 

 sels to the American Pacific coast and foreign 

 ports. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail- 

 road enters the city from the north, and the 

 San Diego & Arizona Railroad from the south- 

 east. The population of 39,578 in 1910 had in- 

 creased to 53,300 (Federal estimate) in 1916. 

 The area of the city is seventy-four square 

 miles. 



Parks, Buildings and Institutions. San Diego 

 is a semitropical city, modern in every re- 

 spect, yet having the atmosphere and charm 

 suggestive of the Spanish period in Ami : 

 In the center of the business section is the 

 Plaza, a park bordered by <1 MH palms. 



Of several beautiful public parks, Balboa Park, 

 containing 1,400 acres, is the most noteworthy. 

 It extends along both banks of a deep arroyo 

 (dry gully) in the northeastern part of the city. 

 Here in 1914-1915 was held the Panama-Cali- 

 fornia Exposition, the permanent improvements 

 and buildings of which arc valued at more than 

 $2,000,000. The prominent public buildings of 

 San Diego arc the courthouse, the U. S. Grant 

 and Sun Diego hotels, the handsome buildings 

 of the state normal and the Pulyi. rhnic high 

 school, the Federal building. Masonic Temple, 

 Carnegie Library, bank buildings and churches. 

 In addition to the state normal school, the 

 contains the San Diego Army and Navy 



