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SCKOPHULAEIACEiE. 718 bonie liavc been used medi- SCTJDERY. ]ieiil>toiiioii, flc. cilially. SCBtTPLE. A cliaiaoter in Jolin Wilson's conn'ilv The Cheats (pcrl'oriiied 101)3). lie is a Nomiinluiinist iiiinistei'. touched with a satiric hand, as wli.-ii be calls the strong liquor which he drinks "loo good for the wicked; it may strengthen tlccm in llu-ir enormities."' SCKUTIN DE LISTE, skri.i'tax' de lest ( I'r.. voting by list ) . A method of electing menihers of the l^rench Chamber of Deputies. According to tliis method of svnilhi de liste all the Deputies of a given department are elected on a general ticket, each elector voting for the whide list — the method by which Presidential electors in the rniteil States are chosen. This method was in- troduced iu 1885 with the view of swamping the minority party and removing the Deputies from the strong pressure of local petty interests. It did not. however, prove satisfactory to the ma- jority, and the arrondissement or single-district method was reestablished in 1889. SCUD'DER, Hexry iI.RTY.- ( 1822-9.5). An American missionary and minister. He was born at Panditeripo, Ceylon, the son of the Rev. John Seudder, a missionary of the (Dutch) Reformed Church. He was graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1840 and Union Theo- logical Seminary iu 184;i. The following year he went as missionary to Madura, India. Here he established a hospital and dispensary, having received the degree of M.D. in 1853. In 1864 he returned to tlie United States and filled pastor- ates in San Francisco (1805). Brooklyn (1872), and Chicago (1882). From 1887 to 1889 he was again in the mission field in Japan. He pub- lished a numlier of books in the Sanskrit. Tamil, and Telugu languages. SCUDDER, Horace Elisha (1838-1902). An .American author and editor, born in Boston, Alass. He graduated from Williams College in 1858 and then taught school in Xew York City. Subse<iuently. lemoving to Boston, he devoted himself to literary work. In 1807 he was made editor of the Riverside Magazine for Young Peo- ple. In 1890 he succeeded Tlicnnas Bailey Ald- rieh as editor of the Atluiitic Monthly. Although a critic and biographer of recognized ability and an influential man of letters by virtue of his po- sition as editor and literary adviser, he was prob- ably most widely known as a writer of juvenile books, such as Heven Little People and Their Friends ( 1802 ) and the Bodley Books, in eight volumes (1875-85). Other titles of his works are: Life and Letters of David Coit Seudder (1864), ,Slories from My Attic (1869), Stories and Ronianees {ISSO) , Xoah Webster ("American Men of Letters." 1882), A History of the United States (1884). Men and Letters '(1887), George Washington (1889). and Childhood in Literature and Art (1894). Doubtless his most important single work is his biography of .Tames Russell Lowell (1901). which presents with fullness, ac- curacy, and sympathy the chief phases of lit- erary life in Xew England, with which the biog- rapher himself was throughout his life in touch. Seudder also prepared, with Mrs. Taylor, the Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor (1.884). and was editor of the '■American Commonwealths Series." SCTTDDER, Samuel Hcbbard (1837—). An American entomologist, born in Boston. He was graduated at Williams College and at Harvard University. From 1804 to 1870 he was custodian of the Boston Society of Natural History, and its president from 1880 to 1887. He was an assistant librarian at Harvard from 1879 to 1882 ; was attached to the United States Geo- logical Survey from 1886 to 1892; became a member of the National Academy of Science in 1887, and has been an honorary or corresponding member of several foreign societies. An author- ity on North American butterflies and orthoptera, he has also a world-wide reputation as an inves- tigator of fossil insects, myriapods, and araeh- nida. He has di.seussed the subjects of an- tigeny and digoneutism, proposing these terms, and has made elaborate studies on the larval histories and on the ecology of buttertlies. His publications are ver.y numerous, comprising: Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada (New Y'ork, 1887-89) ; The Fossil Insects of Xorth America (ib., 1890) ; Index to the Known Fossil Insects of the World (Washington, 1891); Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States (ib., 1893) ; Revision of the Orthopteran Group Melanopli (ib., 1897) ; Catalogue of the Described Orthop- tera of the United States and Canada (1900) : Adephagous and Clavicorn Coleoptera from the Tertiary Deposits at Florissant, Colorado (Wash- ington, 1900) ; Index to yorth American Orthop- tera (Boston, 1901). SCTJDDER, ViDA DuTTEX (1801- ). An American educator and writer, born in India. She graduated at Smith College in 1884, and after studying at Oxford and fn Paris became associate professor of English literature at Wellesley College. Her publications include: The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets (1895); The Witness of Denial (1890); Social Ideals in English Letters (1898) ; and an Introduction to the Study of English Literature (1901). SCUDERY, sku'dn're', Georges de (1601-07). A French ])oet and playwright, born at Havre. He was popular in his time, but is now remem- bered chietly through Boileau's satire, and as being the brother of the celebrated Madeleine de Seud^ry. who pul)lished many of her works under his name. He served in the artillery until 1030, when his literary interests drew him to Paris. By means of assiduous flattery and an adroit polemic against Corneille, Scudery received from Richelieu in 1043 an appointment as Governor of Notre Dame de la Garde, near ilarseilles, which he retained until 1058. In 1650 he was elected to the Academy. Scudery's numerous works include: La comcdie des comMicns (1034) ; La mort de Cesar (1030) ; Arminius (1643) : and a pretentious epic Alaric (1654). which was honored by Boileau's most cutting satire. SCUDERY, Madeleine de (1607-1701). A French novelist, born at Havre. She was left an orphan at six, was well educated by an uncle, and, with her scapegrace brother Georges, went to Paris in 16.30, where her wit and good sense soon won her higji rank in the brilliant society of the Hotel de Rambouillet. Her early writing was done under the name of her brother Georges, who seems to have collaborated with her in battle scenes, general plan, prefaces, and dedications. and is said in days of need to have kept his sister under lock to secure steady production.