RYCAUT, or RICAUT, SIR PAUL (1628-1700).—­Historian, was at Camb., and held various diplomatic positions.  He wrote Present State of the Ottoman Empire (1668), and a continuation of Knolles’s General Historie of the Turks, and translated Platina’s Latin History of the Popes.

RYMER, THOMAS (1641-1713).—­Archaeologist and critic, ed. at Camb., became a barrister at Gray’s Inn.  He pub. in 1678 Tragedies of the last Age Considered, in which he passed judgments, very unfavourable, upon their authors, including Shakespeare.  He was of much more use as the collector of English treaties, which he pub. under the title of Faedera, in 20 vols., the last 5 of which were ed. after his death by R. Sanderson (q.v.).  R. also pub. poems and a play, Edgar.  He held the office of historiographer to William III.  His learning and industry have received the recognition of many subsequent historians.

ST. JOHN, H., (see BOLINGBROKE).

SALA, GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY (1828-1895).—­Journalist and novelist, b. in London of Italian ancestry, began life as an illustrator of books and scene-painter, afterwards taking to literature.  He contributed to many periodicals, including Household Words, and the Illustrated London News, and was the founder and first ed. of Temple Bar.  Among his novels were The Buddington Peerage and Quite Alone.  He also wrote books of travel, and an autobiographical work, his Life and Adventures (1895).

SALE, GEORGE (1697?-1736).—­Orientalist, a Kentish man, and practising solicitor.  In 1734 he pub. a translation of the Koran.  He also assisted in the Universal History, and was one of the correctors of the Arabic New Testament issued by the S.P.C.K.

SANDERSON, ROBERT (1587-1663).—­Theologian and casuist, b. of good family at Rotherham in Yorkshire, was at Oxf.  Entering the Church he rose to be Bishop of Lincoln.  His work on logic, Logicae Artis Compendium (1615), was long a standard treatise on the subject.  His sermons also were admired; but he is perhaps best remembered by his Nine Cases of Conscience Resolved (1678), in consideration of which he has been placed at the head of English casuists.  He left large collections of historical and heraldic matter in MS.

SANDS, ROBERT CHARLES (1799-1832).—­Miscellaneous writer, b. at New York, was a scholarly and versatile writer, but without much originality.  His best work is in his short stories.  His chief poem was Yamoyden, an Indian story written in collaboration with a friend.

SANDYS, GEORGE (1578-1644).—­Traveller and translator, s. of an Archbishop of York, b. at Bishopsthorpe, and ed. at Oxf., is one of the best of the earlier travellers, learned, observant, and truth-loving.  He pub. in 1615 an account of his journeys in the East which was highly popular.  He also translated when in America the Metamorphoses of Ovid, produced a metrical Paraphrase on the Psalms, with music by Henry Lawes, and another on the Canticles, and wrote Christ’s Passion, a tragedy.  He held various public offices, chiefly in connection with the colony of Virginia.