Selkirkshire
a county of southeast Scotland. Area, 267 square miles. Pop. about 25,000. Almost its entire area is occupied by two parallel valleys of the rivers Ettrick and Yarrow. The county is mountainous. The various mountains, the highest of which is Dun Rig (2,433 feet), have round, instead of peaked tops, and the mountain sides are covered with a high quality grass, providing excellent pasturage. Formerly there were extensive woods, which, however, have now disappeared. Capital, Selkirk, with a population (1918) of 5,946.
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Sellar
WILLIAM YOUNG, an English critic; born in Morvich, Sutherland, Feb. 22, 1825; was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Glasgow University, from which he passed to Balliol College, Oxford. In 1850 he was elected to a fellowship at Oriel; next acted as assistant professor at Durham, Glasgow (1851-1853), and St. Andrews 1853- 1859); filled for six years the Greek chair at St. Andrews; and was elected in 1863 to the Latin chair at Edinburgh, which he retained till his death near Dalry, Galloway, Oct. 12, 1890. He made his name widely known by his learned and brilliant book, "The Roman Poets of the Republic" (1863; revised and enlarged, 1881), which was followed by "The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age -Vergil" (1877), and "Horace and the Elegiac Poets" (1892), the latter edited from his papers by his nephew, Andrew Lang, with a brief memoir prefixed.
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Sells
CATO, an American public official, born at Vinton, Iowa. He studied at Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa. In 1884 he was admitted to the bar. He practiced at Laporte City, served as its mayor, and in 1891 was elected state's attorney. From 1894 to 1899 he was United States district attorney. In 1907 he removed to Cleburne, Tex., where he engaged in the banking business. He was appointed_commissioner of Indian Affairs by President Wilson in 1913.
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Selma
a city and county-seat of Dallas co., Ala.; on the Alabama river, and on the Western of Alabama, and the Louisville and Nashville and other railroads; 50 miles W. of Montgomery. Here Orphanage, public library, Y. M. C. A., Alabama Baptist Colored University, and other public buildings, electric lights, National and State banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. There is regular steamboat connection with Mobile. The city has an ice factory, cottonseed oil mill, railroad machine and carwheel shops, a planing mill, iron works, engine works, extensive cotton factories, etc. During the Civil War the city contained an arsenal, extensive powder works, and a gun foundry. It fell into the hands of the Union forces a few days before the surrender of General Lee. Pop. (1910) 13,649; (1920) 15,589.
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Selous
FREDERICK COURTE- NAY, an English explorer; born in London, Dec. 31, 1851. He made a name eleas a gold prospector, explorer, and phant hunter in South Africa, where he spent many years; and during the Matabele campaign fought on the side of the colonists. In 1909-1910 he organized and conducted the Roosevelt hunting expedition in E. Africa. Though over 60 when the World War broke out he obtained in 1915 a commission as lieutenant of Fusileers. Promoted captain D. S. O. 1916. Killed in action in E. Africa in 1917. He wrote: "A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa" (1881); "Travel and Adventure in Southeast Africa" (1893); and "Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia" (1896), etc. carbonated
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Seltzer Water
a mineral water imported from Lower Selters, in the duchy of Nassau. It contains common salt and the carbonates of soda, magnesia, and lime, and is recommended as a mild stimulant and diuretic. An artificial seltzer for domestic use is prepared by adding minute quantities of common salt and carbonate of soda to distilled water, and highly impregnating with carbonic acid gas.
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Selva
a Spanish word meaning forest. The most noted are the selvas of the Amazon, which rival the forests of the Congo. See Amazon
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Selwyn
GEORGE AUGUSTUS, an English bishop; born April 5, 1809; was educated at Eton and at Cambridge; rowed in the first inter-university boat race (1829); and was a great pedestrian and swimmer, athletic powers found very serviceable in after life. In 1841, while curate of Windsor, he was consecrated first and only Bishop of New Zealand and Melanesia-now divided into seven On the voyage out he studied sees. Maori and navigation. He visited every portion of his huge diocese before setting about his great work of organizing it.. A visit to England in 1854 brought back John Coleridge Patteson, afterward the martyred Bishop of Melanesia, to whose see Bishop Selwyn's second son was consecrated in 1877. In 1867 Bishop Selwyn attended the first Pan-Anglican Synod at Lambeth, and against his own inclinations was appointed Bishop of Lichfield -the see of the Black Country-where on his initiative the first Diocesan Conference in which the laity were duly represented met in 1868, and where he died, April 11, 1878.
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Sembrich
MARCELLA, an Austrian opera singer; born in Lemberg, Poland, Feb. 18, 1858; received her first instruction on the piano and soon afterward took up the study of the violin. In 1876 she gave up her instrumental work to study singing, and went to Milan, where for nearly three years, she was a pupil of Lamberti. Her first appearance was in "I Puritani," at Athens, where her singing attracted considerable attention. Subsequently she appeared in all the large cities of Europe with great success, and in 1883 came to the United States. She reappeared in concerts in the United States in 1897-1898, in 1898- 1899 was a member of the Grau Opera Company and the principal coloratura soprano of the New York Metropolitan Opera Company, 1903-1909. She retired from the operatic stage in 1909 but continued to give concerts and recitals. She worked for the relief of the suffering in Poland during the World War.
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Semi-Pelagianism
in Church history, a modification of the doctrines of the Pelagians, consisting chiefly in maintaining the sufficiency of man's natural power, only so far as regards the first act of conversion to God, and the initial act of man's repentance for sin. Semi- Pelagianism took its rise in 428, from John Cassian, a pupil of Chrysostom at Marseilles. The Council of Orange, July Vol 8 3, 529, established the Augustinian doctrines in opposition to those of the Pelagians and Semi-Pelagians, as did that of Valencia, in July or August, 530; and Pope Boniface II. confirmed the decree in 530.
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