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himself at Paris before the close of 1642. The 

 works of Suckling consist of four plays, Aglaura, 

 The. Goblins, Brennoralt, and The Sad One, now 

 utterly forgotten ; a prose treatise entitled An 

 Account of Religion by Reason ; a few Letters, 

 written in an artificial style ; and a series of mis- 

 cellaneous poems, beginning with A Sessions of the 

 Poets, published in 1637, which is original in style, 

 and happily descriptive of the author's contempor- 

 aries. But the fame of Suckling rests on his songs 

 and ballads, which at their best are inimitable for 

 ease, gaiety, and grace. The well-known Ballad 

 upon a Wedding is an exquisite masterpiece of 

 sparkling gaiety and felicity of phrase; and his 

 lyrics ' I prithee send me back my heart,' ' Why so 

 pale and wan, fond lover?' are amongst the 

 triumphs of English verse. 



See the Rev. Alfred Suckling's Selections, with a Life 

 (1836), reproduced by W. C. Hazlitt, with the addition 

 of a few gross poems and portions of poems, poor beyond 

 most of their kind (2 vols. 1874); also the Jdemoir 

 prefixed to F. A. Stokes's edition (New York, 1885). 



Sucre. See CHUQUISACA. 



Sucrose. See SUGAR. 



Sudainina, or MILIABY ERUPTION, one of the 

 vesicular diseases of the skin, is associated with 

 profuse sweating, though it occasionally occurs in 

 a dry skin ; the second name refers to the size of 

 the vesicles, which do not exceed those of a millet- 

 seed. The vesicles are most abundant on the neck 

 and tnink, and are sometimes attended with itch- 

 ing. They almost always occur in association with 

 febrile disorders, particularly acute Rheumatism 

 (q.v.), which, however, do not seem in any way 

 modified by them. They give rise to little irrita- 

 tion, and are of no particular importance. 



Sudan. See SOUDAN. 



Slldbury, a municipal borough (till 1843 also 

 parliamentary) of Suffolk, on the Stour at the 

 Essex boundary, 16 miles S. of Bury St Edmunds 

 and 58 NE. of London. It has three old churches, 

 mainly Perpendicular in style, a town-hall (1828), 

 grammar-school ( 1491 ; rebuilt 1857 ), corn exchange 

 ( 1841 ), and manufactures of cocoa-nut matting, silk, 

 bricks, &c. the famous woollen industry of the 

 Flemings, dating from the 14th century, having 

 died out. Simon Theobald, Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury, beheaded by Tyler in 1381, and Gainsborough 

 were natives. Pop. ( 1851 ) 6043 ; ( 1891 ) 7059. 



Slldbury, a village of Ontario (pop. 800), by 

 rail 443 miles W. by N. of Montreal and 179 NE. 

 of Sault Ste Marie. It is notable for the immense 

 deposits of copper and nickel close by. Two short 

 branch-lines connect Sudbury and the mines, and 

 smelting-furnaces reduce the ores on the spot. 



Sudermann, HERMANN, poet and novelist, 

 was born 30th September 1857 at Matzicken in 

 East Prussia, studied at Konigsberg and Berlin, 

 and while acting as domestic tutor, and as editor 

 of a small newspaper, produced tales, tragedies, 

 and poems that were unheeded. But the drama 

 Ehre, on somewhat realistic lines, was produced in 

 1888, and made him famous ; and his novels, Frau 

 Sorge (1888; Eng. trans. Dame Care, 1892), Der 

 Katzensteri ( 1889 ; trans. Regina, 1898 ), Im Zwielicht, 

 lolanthes Hochzeit ( 1892), Es War ( 1894 ), have been 

 widely read. The censor forbade the representation 

 of the tragedy Sodoms Ende ( 1890 ). Other dramas 

 were Heimat (1893; trans. Magda, 1895), Die 

 Schmetterlingsschlacht (1896), Das Gluck im Win/eel 

 (1896), Monturi (1896). 



Sudetic Mountains, in SE. Germany, divide 

 Prussian Silesia and Lusatia from Bohemia and 

 Moravia, and connect the Carpathians with the 

 mountains of Franconia. They do not form a con- 

 tinuous chain except in the middle, in the Riesenge- 

 birge (q.v.) and Isergebirge. 



Slldorifics, or DIAPHORETICS, remedies to 

 excite the secretions of the skin. The simplest of 

 all diaphoretics are baths, which may be warm 

 baths of water or of vapour, either simple or 

 medicated (see BATH). The most powerful of all, 

 however, as regards educing perspiration is prob- 

 ably the Turkish bath, which consists essentially 

 in the use of a sweating process by means of air 

 heated to a temperature of 140, or even more. 

 The following remedies, used internally, are power- 

 ful diaphoretics : antimony, ipecacuanha, opium 

 (these three either singly or in combination); 

 ammonia, and the carbonate or acetate of ammonia 

 (spirit of mindererus), guaiacum, dulcamara, and 

 sassafras ; and, most active of all, pilocarpine, the 

 chief active principle of jaborandi. On most of 

 these substances special articles will be found. 

 A favourite formula is Dover's Powder (q.v.), 

 consisting of a grain of opium, and a grain of 

 ipecacuanha in each ten grains of the powder. 

 This in doses of from five to eight grains, followed 

 by warm drinks and plenty of blankets in bed, 

 usually produces copious perspiration, and is veiy 

 soothing and useful in many commencing inflam- 

 matory and febrile complaints. James's powder 

 ( antimonial ), in doses of from three to five grains, 

 is often added to the above in domestic prescrip- 

 tions ; but neither of these medicines should be 

 used rashly, as in certain states of the system they 

 may prove dangerous ; and they should never be 

 given to very young children. 



Slid ru. See CASTE. 



Sudreys, or SUDOREYS. See MAN (ISLE OF). 



Sue, MARIE-JOSEPH-EUGENE, a master of melo- 

 dramatic fiction, was born at Paris, 10th December 

 1804. The son of an army, surgeon, he himself 

 served as such in Spain and at Navarino, and 

 worked up his experiences into the Byronic and 

 absurd novels, Kernock le Pirate, La Salamandre, 

 &c., as well as the unhistorical Histoire de la 

 Marine Franqaise (5 vols. 1835-37) and Histoire 

 de la Marine Militaire chez tons les Peuples ( 1841 ). 

 In 1829 his father died leaving him a handsome 

 fortune, which enabled him to give himself seri- 

 ously to literature. His first hit was the too 

 famous Afystdres de Paris (10 vols. 1842), which 

 first appeared in the columns of the Journal des 

 Debats. Its successor, Le Juif Errant, which ap- 

 peared in the Constitutional ( 10 vols. 1845), was no 

 less successful. Later works were Martin, F Enfant 

 Trouvt (12 vols. 1846), Les Sept Peehes Capitaux 

 ( 16 vols. 1847-49), and Les Mysteres du Peuple ( 16 

 vols. 1849), the last condemned by the law-courts 

 of Paris as immoral and seditious. Sue was elected 

 deputy for Seine in 1850, and attached himself to 

 the Extreme Left. The coup d'etat of December 

 1852 drove him into exile. He lived at Aunecy 

 in Savoy, and there died 3d August 1859. 



Sue was often grouped with his contemporary 

 Dumas, but is far his inferior in breadth, human- 

 ity, and interest generally. But he possesses un- 

 deniably the power of holding a reader fast in his 

 story, and if his novels are never re-read and soon 

 forgotten, at least they are read once in a fever of 

 curiosity. Unfortunately their author was nothing 

 of an artist, so that they possess as little excellence 

 in form as in substance. Indeed these novels are 

 hardly to be taken seriously as works of art, yet 

 they have the vitality that ever belongs to a group 

 of strong situations, however improbable. As for 

 the unhealthy thread that runs throughout, that is 

 nowadays no disqualification far beyond the bounds 

 of France. 



Suet is a variety of solid fatty tissue, which 

 accumulates in considerable quantity about the 

 kidneys and the omentum of several domestic 

 animals, especially the ox and sheep. Beef suet 



