Among less formal publications are the negro periodicals, which are very numerous and include Alexander's Magazine and a few other well-written and well-edited summaries of things of special interest to the race.
The annual Statistical Abstract prints summaries of manufactures and other industry, and on these topics the Census Bureau issues valuable bulletins.
Race Traits" is written by a man of foreign extraction who therefore feels that he is outside the currents of prejudice; it is well studied, scientifically arranged, and rests chiefly on statistical summaries carefully compiled.
The history of Philosophy should show just this impartiality, and it seems in so far that to give only summaries of the philosophers proves a success.
He has many good summaries of rare works, as for instance those of Giordano Bruno, which were in the Göttingen Library.
It should have short summariesat the ends of chapters or stories of events, so that a grasp of what has been read may be easily obtained.
The summaries on the sheets of paper may be arranged in order for a week or a month and be known as The School Review.
When possible, let the pupils form their idea of an historical person from his actions and words just as we form our estimate of each other, instead of having them memorize mere summaries of his character before they know his actions.
But later scribes do not so transpose their material, and the proper place for summaries is at the close, not at the beginning, of a list.
One of their novel features is that they include summaries at the end, in which it is stated how often a city or district enjoyed the privilege of being the seat of supreme authority in Babylonia.
The figures giving the total duration of each dynasty, either in the summaries or under the separate reigns, are sometimes not completely preserved; in such cases an x is added to the total of the figures still legible.
Though the resemblance of early Sumerian tradition to that of the Hebrews is striking, it furnishes a still closer parallel to the summariespreserved from the history of Berossus.
As in Babylonia and Assyria, such records must have formed the foundation on which summaries of chronicles of past Egyptian history were based.
The only alternative explanation would be that it was inscribed with the summaries which conclude the Sumerian copies of our list.
Summaries put the reader in possession of the situation up to that point, and make him ready for the next stage of the advance.
The examples of these summaries and transitions are so frequent in Macaulay and Burke that one transition is sufficient to indicate their use.
Summaries gather up what has been said on the topic, much like a conclusion to a theme; transitions show the relation between the topic already discussed and the one next to be treated.
Summaries and outlines aid greatly in binding the arguments of a debating team into one compact mass.
All the speakers try to overthrow the opposing arguments, and by means of summaries keep their case as a whole before the audience.
Summaries of the statutes as they stood at particular dates have indeed appeared.
It cannot even be shown with certainty that there were Latin translations of popular summaries of philosophy belonging to this period; those who pursued philosophy read and disputed in Greek.
Questions should be brief and usually deal with only one point, except, perhaps in asking for summaries of what has been covered in the lesson.
On the English side, we have the account in Mather’s Magnalia, and the later summaries of Williamson and of the general historians.
Mr. Froude studied and made use of an immense mass of evidence not before available; but his transcriptions and summaries are not always distinguishable nor always accurate.
The actual surviving evidence is to be found in the partial summaries known as the Comperta and in the letters of the commissioners to Cromwell.
But his remark is entirely irrelevant when these propositions are understood as: 'summaries of empirical observations, by the help of which concrete social facts may be explained.
The reader must, however, have been struck, while examining the summaries just given, with the great diversity of the residuum which would be left if the parts properly belonging to The Grateful Dead were taken away.
Wherever Hippe's summaries are adequate and careful, I shall refer the reader to his monograph for comparison.
In presenting these statistics, the writer has endeavored to make them as colorless summaries of facts as an earnest desire to arrive at the truth permits.
It will be observed that the taxes in both summaries are identical, but in one they are subtracted from net revenues and in the other they are not.
I will only venture to refer to two judgments, which may be read with interest even by the unprofessional, as vigorous pieces of argument and lucid summaries of fact.
He speaks in one of his letters of the pleasure which he has discovered in treating a bit of history 'microscopically'; in getting at the ultimate facts instead of trusting to the superficial summaries of historians.
So it was decided not to have an index, but instead to have rather full summaries of each chapter.
If none of the questions that interest me are answered in the summaries I have, are not my readers likely to be in the same position?
The summaries I have are so full of things too trivial (though I must have them and they are invaluable) .
For summaries of his work in other fields, see Whewell, vol.
Kenyon (British Museum Catalogues); also Mr Kenyon's annualsummaries in the Archaeological Report of the Egypt Exploration Fund.
The annual Archaeological Reports of the Egypt Exploration Fund contain summaries of the work done each year in the several departments of research.
Hence, he failed to discover what the tables and summariesmost clearly disclose--the principles and system unfolded in the foregoing work.
There is a mass of other evidence in these summaries which shows the truth of what I have written.
Assurance was moreover given that summaries would also be sent to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.
Brief summaries were given of military operations, in which the Confederates were usually victorious, and of political events, North and South.
The newspaper reports give summaries of the debates on the more important ordinances; the Journal of the Convention gives only the votes and resolutions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "summaries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
