THe Uses Vee StryY: OF CHICAGO PRESS 
The Meaning of Social Science. By Albion W. Small, Professor 
of Sociology in the University of Chicago. 
320 pages, 12mo, cloth; postpaid $1.62 
A recent German writer has said: ‘‘The future of scientific 
investigation, not merely in the realm of the social sciences but 
of all the sciences, will lead in an ascending degree to the increas- 
ing recognition of the coherence of all scientific thought. The 
separation into distinct disciplines will no longer have, as its last 
result, the isolation of the investigators, but a more general, 
more comprehensive investigation will arrive at the principles 
which are to be held in common, and thus will arouse the con- 
sciousness that science is a unity.” ; 
The Meaning of Social Science outlines a plan of co-operation 
among the various types of specialists in social science. Its 
keynote is the proposition that the main business of social science 
is to be the agent of all men in finding out the meaning of life, 
including in particular the means by which men may most surely 
progress toward the largest realizations of life. 
Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psy- 
chological Stand point, Classified and Annotated Bibliographies 
for the Interpretation of Savage Society. By William J. 
Thomas, Associate Professor of Sociology in the University 
of Chicago. 
940 pages, 8vo, full buckram, gold ornamented, sewn on tape; postpaid $4.77 
The work is divided into seven parts: 1. External Environ- 
ment (Anthropogeography and Primitive Economics); 2. Primi- 
tive Mind and Education; 3. Early Marriage; 4. Invention 
and Technology; 5. Art, Ornament, and Decoration; 6. Magic, 
Religion, Ritual, and Ceremonial; 7. Social Organization, 
Morality, and the State. The papers forming the body of the 
collection are by eminent modern anthropologists. The bibliog- 
raphies are the chief feature of the book. 
The Nation. The selections are judicious. 
\Yale Review. Pre-eminently a labor-saver for the instructor. 
Public Libraries. Should prove of particular value to small libraries. 
Psychological Bulletin. Admirably to orient the beginner and to 
serve as the basis for class-room work in the subject. 
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