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LEFT SUDERMANN 145 SUEZ published: "In the Twilight" (1885); "Dame Care" (1886) ; "Brothers and Sisters" (1887) ; "Honor," better known as "Magda" (1888); "The Cat Bridge" (1889) ; "The Destruction of Sodom" (1890) ; "Home"; "Battle of the Butter- flies"; "lolanthe's Wedding" (1892); "Once on a Time" (1893) ; "Luck in the Corner" (1895) ; "About to Die" (1896) ; "The Three Heron Feathers" (1897); "Fires of St. John" (1901) ; "The Joy of Living" (1902); "Roses" (1907); "Beg- gar of Syracuse" (1911) ; "Dramatic Cycle"; "The World Made Godless" (1916). A novel, "The Song of Songs," was published in 1908. SUDETIC MOUNTAINS, an exten- sive mountain system in the S. E. of Germany, dividing Prussian Silesia and Lusatia from Bohemia and Moravia, and connecting the Carpathians with the mountains of Franconia. It does not form a continuous chain except in the middle, where it is known under the names of Riesengebirge and Isergebirge. The subsidiary chains range on an aver- age from 2,500 to 3,300 feet in altitude. SUE (su), MARIE JOSEPH EU- GENE, a French novelist; born in Paris Dec. 10, 1804. He adopted his father's profession of medicine, became a sur- geon in the army, and served in Spain in 1823. In 1825 he joined the naval serv- ice, and in the capacity of surgeon was present at the battle of Navarino in 1827. On his father's death in 1829, he in- herited a fortune, and having abandoned his profession, he devoted himself to lit- erary composition. His first work was a sea novel entitled "Kernock the Pi- rate," which was quickly followed by "Plick and Plock," "Atar-Gull," "The Salamander" and the "Lookout of Koat- ven." Among his first historical novels were "Latreaumont," "Jean Cavalier," and "The Commander." His most famous works are: "The Mysteries of Paris," and "The Wandering Jew." He wrote also: "Arthur"; "Hotel Lam- bert"; "Mathilde, or the 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'etat 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 of the 13th legion under Otho. The son 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 in- tegrity and learning. Suetonius was married, but, so far as is known, had no children. He obtained, through Pliny's interest from the Emperor Tra- jan the jus trium liberorum, a distin- guished privilege. Suetonius filled the office of Magister Epistolarum to Ha- drian, a position which gave him vast opportunities for seeing and utilizing many important imperial documents. The date of his death is unknown. He was a voluminous writer. His works, in part enumerated by Suidas, con- sisted of grammatical treatises and works antiquarian, legal, moral, and biographical, most of which have been lost. His "Lives of the Twelve C^sars," "Lives of Eminent Grammarians," and a portion of "Lives of Eminent Rhe- toricians," survive. His "Lives of the Csesars" still maintains the reputation in which it has been held for centuries. Editions of Suetonius are very nu- merous. The two earliest were pub- lished at Rome, 1470, a third at Venice, 1471. The editions of Burmann (1736, quarto, 2 vols.), of J, A. Ernesti (1748), and of Fr. Oudendorp (1751), are well known. SUEVI, an appellation of various Ger- manic tribes in classic authors; used somewhat loosely, as we find it employed to designate peoples widely removed from each other. On six different occa« sions tribes, probably Germanic, though possibly mixed with^Celtic and Slavonic elements, appear in history under this name. (1) Ceesar mentions Suevi liv- ing on the E. bank of the Rhine, and possessing 100 villages. (2) Tacitus places them N. and S. of this, on both sides of the Upper and Middle Elbe. (3) In the 2d and 3d centuries they appear along with the Quadi and Mar- comanni in Moravia and Bohemia. (4) In 406 Suevi crossed the Rhine along with the Vandals and Alans, and break into Spain, settling more especially in Leon and Castile, whence they were driven by the Visigoths in 584. (5) In 420 an- other tribe called Suevi are spoken of in Upper Germany, who left their name to the modern Swabia. (6) In the 6th century we hear of Nordsuevi, with a village Swevon on the Upper Elbe. SUEZ, a town, on an angle of land near the N. extremity of the Gulf of Suez, and near the S. terminus of the Suez canal. It is walled on all sides but that toward the sea, has an indifferent