Sudetic Mountains
an extensive mountain system in the S. E. of Germany, dividing Prussian Silesia and Bohemia and Moravia, and connecting the Carpathians with the . It does not form a continuous chain except in the middle, where it is known under the and Isergebirge.
The subsidiary chains range on an average from 2,500 to 3,300 feet in altitude.
SUE (sü), MARIE JOSEPH EU- GENE, a French novelist; born in Paris Dec. 10, 1804. He adopted his father's profession of medicine, became a surgeon in the army , and served in Spain in 1823. In 1825 he joined the naval service, and in the capacity of surgeon was present at the battle of Navarino in 1827. On his father's death in 1829, he inabandoned his profession, he devoted himself to lit- His first work was a sea novel entitled "Kernock the Pirate," which was quickly rate," which was quickly followed by Plock," "Atar-Gull," "The Salamander" and the "Lookout of Koatven." Among his first ven." Among his first historical novels were "Latreaumont," "Jean Cavalier," and "The Commander." His most and "The Commander."
His most famous works are: "The Mysteries of Paris," and "The Wandering Jew."
He wrote also: "Arthur"; "Hotel Lamthe Recollections of a Young Woman "; "The Foundling"; "The Seven Capital Sins "; and "The Mysteries of the People ." In 1850 he was elected to the Constituent Assembly, and sat as an advanced radical. After the coup d'état by Napoleon III. in 1851 he left France and retired to Savoy. He died in Annecy, Savoy, July 3, 1857.
SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, CAIUS, a Roman author; lived and wrote between A. D. 75 and 160. His father was Suetonius Lenis, a tribune legion under Otho. The son SUEZ mainly known to us as a biographer and miscellaneous writer was educated for the Roman bar . He seems never to have sought public employment.
Pliny speaks in high terms of his writings; his inmarried, but, so far as is known, had tegrity and learning . Suetonius was no children. He obtained, through Pliny's interest from the Emperor Trajan the jus trium liberorum, a distinguished privilege. guished privilege. Suetonius filled the drian, a position which gave him vast office of Magister Epistolarum to Haopportunities for seeing and utilizing drian, a position which gave him vast many important imperial documents.
The date of his death is unknown. He in part enumerated by Suidas, conwas a voluminous writer . His works, sisted of grammatical treatises and works antiquarian , legal, moral, and biographical, most of which have been lost. His "Lives of the Twelve Cæsars," "Lives of Eminent Grammarians," and toricians," survive. His "Lives of the a portion of " Lives of Eminent Rhe- Cæsars" still maintains the reputation merous.
Editions of Suetonius are very nuin which it has been held for centuries. The two earliest were published at Rome, 1470, a third at Venice, quarto, 2 vols.), of J. A. Ernesti (1748), 1471. The editions of Burmann (1736, and of Fr. Oudendorp (1751), are well known. manic tribes in classic authors; used