Chapter Snobs to Sologne of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Solemn Doctor (The). Henry Goethals was by the Sorbonne given the honorary title of Doctor Solemnis (1227–1293).

Solemn League and Covenant, a league to support the Church of Scotland, and exterminate popery and prelacy. Charles II. signed it in 1651, but declared it null and void at his restoration.

Soles, a shoemaker, and a witness at the examination of Dirk Hatteraick.— Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering (time, George II).

Solid Doctor (The), Richard Middleton (^*—1304).

Soliman the Magnificent, Charles Jennens, who composed the libretto for Handel’s Messiah (^*—1773).

Solingen, called “The Sheffield of Germany;” famous for swords and foils.

Solinus, duke of Ephesus, who was obliged to pass the sentence of the law on Æge’on, a merchant, because, being a Syracusian, he had dared to set foot in Ephesus. When, however, he discovered that the man who had saved his life, and whom he best loved, was the son of Ægeon, the prisoner was released, and settled in Ephesus.—Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors (1593).

Solitude (Hymn on), by Thomson (1737).

(Alexander Pope wrote an Ode to Solitude, when about twelve years old. James Grainger wrote an Ode to Solitude, in 1766.)

Sologne, in France. There is a legend that every domestic animal, such as dogs, cats, pigs, horses, cows, etc., in Sologne, become possessed of human speech from the midnight of Christmas Eve to the midday of December 25. (See Loupgarou, p. 629; Were-wolf.)