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See Necho. Bonn in 1819, and at Breslau in 1831. For political reasons he was deprived of his office in 1852. Among his works are "Handbuch der Botanik" (1820-21), and works on entomology, philosophy, etc. Nefert (ne'fert). [Egypt., 'good' or 'beautiful.'] An Egyptian queen, wife of Amenemhat II. A life-size statue of her, in black granite, was found in the ruins of Tanis, Lower Egypt. Nefert and Ra-Hotep (rä-hō'tep). Two remarkable statues of early Egyptian art, in the museum at Gizeh, Egypt. The figures are seated, carved in limestone, painted, and with inlaid eyes of gla and enamel, the effect being strangely lifelike. The prince wears a simple loin-cloth, the prince a close-fitting white garment with an elaborate necklace and a diadem. The statues came from the vestibule of a tomb at Meidum. Nefertari (ne-fer-tä'ri) Aahmes. [Egypt., 'beautiful wife of Aahmes.'] An Egyptian queen, wife of Aahmes I. Her mummy-case, "one of the largest and most magnificent ever discovered," is in the museum at Gizeh. Not only in the rock-caves of Tûrah and Ma aarah, opposite to Memphis, but also on a number of public monuments in the interior of the sepulchral chambers of the Theban Necropolis, has the name of this queen been preserved, surrounded by laudatory inscriptions. Long after her decease, this great ancestre of the New Empire was venerated as a divine being, and her image was placed beside those of the eternal inhabitants of the Egyptian heaven. Brugsch , Egypt under the Pharaohs, p. 131. Nefi (nef'e). See the extract. During the reign of Ahmed I. (1603-1607), arose the sec of ond great light of old Turkish poetry. This was Nef'i of Erzerüm, who is as much esteemed for the brilliancy his kasīdas, or eulogies, as Fuzūlī is for the tenderne of his ghazels. Like him, he elaborated a style for himself, which found many imitators, the most succe ful of whom was Sabrī. Unfortunately for himself, Nef'i was an able satirist: his scathing pen drew down upon him the enmity of certain great men, who prevailed upon Sultan Murad IV. to sanction his execution (1635). Poole , Story of Turkey, p. 315. Negapatam (neg-a-pa-täm'). A seaport in the district of Tanjore, Madras, British India, situated in lat. 10° 45′ N., long. 79° 51′ E. Population (1891), 59,221. Negaunee (ne-ga'nē). A city in Marquette in southern Norway. Area, 3,608 square miles. Population (1891), 81,043. Nedim (ne-dem'). See the extract. Nedim, the greatest of all the poets old Ottoman school. Nedim has a style that is entirely his own: it is altogether unlike that of any of his predece ors, whether Persian or Turkish, and one ever attempted copy it. Through his ghazels, which are written with the most finished elegance in words of the truest harmony, sings a tone of sprightly gaiety and joyous lighthearted ne , such as is not to be found in any other poet of his His numerous while they are graceful, are hardly le brilliant than those of Neft, and are at the same time in truer taste and le burdened with obscure and far-fetched conceits. Little is known re garding his life, save that he resided at Constantinople, where the Grand Vezir, Ibrahim Pasha, appointed him custodian of the library which he had founded, and that he was still alive in 1727. Poole , Story of Turkey, p. 318. Nedjed (ned'jed), or Nejd (nejd). A large region in central Arabia, lying between Shomer on the north and Dahna on the south. The sur IMG:content-0825.png:[blocks in formation] Needham (ned'am). Atown in Norfolk County, Ma achusetts, 11 miles west-southwest of Boston. Population (1900), 4,016. Needles (ne'dlz), (nē'dlz), The. A group of three pointed rocks in the English Channel, west of the Isle of Wight. Neefe (na'fe), Christian Gottlieb. Born at Chemnitz, Feb. 5, 1748: died Jan. 26, 1798. A German musician. His principal claim to notice is that he was the instructor of Beethoven at Bonn. Neenah (nē'nä). A city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, situated on Fox River 12 miles north of Oshkosh. Population (1900), 5,954. Neer (nar), Aart van der. Born about 1619: died after 1692. A Dutch landscape-painter. Neer, Eglon Hendrik van der. Born at Amsterdam, 1643: died at Dü eldorf, Pru ia, May 3, 1703. A Dutch painter, son of Aart van der Neer. IMG:content-0826.png:[blocks in formation] in the Civil War. He defeated the Confederates at Lavergne, Tenne ee, Oct. 7, 1862, and took part in the battle of Chick am aug a. Negrier (nā-grē-ā'), François Oscar de. Born at Belfort, 1839. A French general, distinguished in the operations in Tongking and Annam 1885. Negritos (ne-grē tōz). A diminutive dark skinned negro-like race found in the Philippine Islands (of which they seem to have been the original inhabitants), and in New Caledonia, etc., according to some authorities. The average height of the Negritos of the Philippine Islands is about 4 feet 8 inches. Also Negrillos . Negro, Rio. See Rio Negro. Negro race. A race of which the physical characteristics are a large and strong skeleton, long and thick skull, prognathic jaws, skin from dark brown to black, woolly hair, thick lips, and a broad and flattened nose. It occupies in a compact ma the African continent south of the Sahara. The brown races of South Africa, the pygmies of central Africa, and the red-brown races of Sudan, who live in the same area, are comparatively few in number, or are intimately mixed with the negro race. There is no racial difference between the Bantu, speaking languages derived from one mother tongue, and the negroes of Upper Guinea and the Sudan, who speak unconnected languages; nor is there much difference in customs. The non-Bantu languages of the Upper Guinea and Sudan negroes are called, in this work, the Nigritic branch, and this word is also applied to the tribes. The negroes of North, Central, and South America have been deported from Africa. The Papuans and Nigritos of Austral asia, having all or most of the characteristics of the African negroes, are cla ed by some with these, by some apart. See African ethnography and languages (under Africa ), Bantu , and Hottentot - Bushmen . Negropont. The modern name of Eubwa. Negros (na'gros). One of the Philippine Islands, situated north of Mindanao. Length, about 130 miles. Population, over 200,000. Nehavend (nā-hä-vend'). A place in Persia, 50 miles south of Hamadan, noted for the battle of 641 (642?), in which the Saracens totally defeated the Persians and overthrew the Per sian kingdom. Nehemiah (ne-he-mi'ä). [Heb., 'comforted by Yahveh.'] Yah A Hebrew cup-bearer of Artaxerxes Long i man us of Persia, appointed governor of Judea 444 в. C. Here built the walls of Jerusalem, and restored the national worship. The authorship of a part of the Book of Nehemiah is ascribed to him. Nehemiah, Book of. A book of the Old Testament, written probably in part by Nehemiah. See the extract. Neleus The book of Nehemiah, or, as we have now learned to call it, in accordance with the Hebrew usage, the joint book of Ezra and Nehemiah, which in all probability was also one book with Chronicles, carries down the list of high priests as far as Jaddua, who was in office at the time of Alexander (Neh. xii. 11). The book, therefore, was written, at the earliest, at the very end of the Persian period, though it incorporates earlier documents, such as the autobiography of Ezra and the memoir of Nehemiah. W. R. Smith , O. T. in the Jewish Ch., p. 140. Neher (nāʼher), Bernhard von. Born at Biberach, Würtemberg, Jan. 16, 1806: died at Stuttgart, Jan. 17, 1886. A German historical painter. Neidhart von Reuenthal (nīt'härt fon roi'entäl). Place and date of birth unknown: died at Vienna, date unknown. A Middle High German lyric poet of the 13th century. He was a Bavarian knight, took part in the crusade of Leopold II. of Austria 1217-19, and subsequently lived at Vienna at the court of Duke Frederick. His principal poems are dance songs. He is the founder of the popular lyric poetry of the courts-poetry, namely, that found its material in the rude life and manners of the peasants, who were held up to the ridicule of the nobles. His poems were published at Leipsic in 1858. Neilgherry Hills. See Nilgiri Hills . Neill (nel), Edward Duffield. Born at Philadelphia, Aug. 9, 1823: died at St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 26, 1893. An American historian. His works include "English Colonization of America" (1871) and other works on American colonial history, "Concise History of Minnesota" (1887), etc. Neilson (nel's on), Adelaide. Born at Leeds, Yorkshire, March 3,1848: died at Paris, France, Aug. 15, 1880. A noted English actre . Her real name was Elizabeth Ann Brown, and, her mother having subsequently married a Mr. Bland, she was known as Lizzie Bland. At the age of 17 she made her début as Juliet. In 1870 she made a conspicuous succe as Amy Robsart in London, and by 1878 she was the acknowledged queen of the English stage. In 1872 she was equally succe ful at Booth's Theater in New York. She made four visits to America, her last appearance there being on May 24, 1880. Neilson (nel's on), James Branmont. Born near Glasgow, June 22, 1792: died at Queen's Hill, Kirkeudbrightshire, udbrightshire, Jan. 18, 1865. A British ish engineer and inventor. He invented the use of the hot blast in smelting-furnaces eon (1821). Neipperg (nip'per a), Count Adam Adalbert von. Born April 8,1775: died Feb.22,.22,1829. An Austrian general and diplomatist. He married Maria Louisa after the death of Napoleon Nei e (nis'se). The name of three rivers of Germany, principally in Silesia. (a) Glatzer Nei e, joining the Oder 35 miles southeast of Breslau. Length, miles. (b) Wüthende ('Furious') Nei e, joining Katzbach below Liegnitz. (c) Lausitzer or Görlitzer Nei e, joining the Oder 26 miles south of Frankfort-on-the-Oder. Length, 140 miles. Nei e. A fortified city in the province of Silesia, Pru ia, situated at the junction of the Biela and Glatzer Nei e, 46 miles south by east of Breslau. It was formerly the capital of an ancient prin cipality of Nei e; repulsed the Hu ites in 1428; was taken by Frederick the Great in 1741, and made a strong fortre ; was unsucce fully besieged by the Austrians in 1758; and was taken by the French June 16, 1807. Population (1890), 22,444 . Neith (ne'ith), or Net (net). [Gr. Νηΐθ , Egypt. Net . ] In Egyptian mythology, a lofty personification of the female principle, the mother of the sun, unbegotten. She was the chief divinity of Saïs, single, supreme, and self-producing. She was identified by the Greeks with Athene. She was represented as a woman wearing the crown of Lower Egypt. Neiva, or Neyva (nā'ō-vä). A town in the Republic of Colombia, situated on the Magdalen a 125 miles southwest of Bogotá. IMG:content-0827.png:[blocks in formation] Nejd. See Nedjed . Nekayah, Prince . The sister of Ra elas, in Johnson's work of that name. Nekra off, or Nekrasoff (nek-ra's of), Nikolai Alexeivitch. Born in the government of Yaroslaff, Ru ia, Nov. 22 (O. S.), 1821: died at St. Petersburg, Dec. 27 (O. S.), 1877. A distinguished Ru ian poet. He was educated at the cadet school at St. Petersburg. He was editor of "The Con temporary" and "The Annals of the Country." In 1840 he published "Dreams and Elves," a small volume of poems, which already appeared in Annals of the Country" and other journals. His poems are pub lished in 6 volumes. Among them are "Red-nosed Frost" (1863), "To Whom is Life in Ru ia Worth Living?" (the till 1881), and "Ru ian Women." He was e entially a last canto of which, owing to the censor, was not published poet of the people. Nélat on (nā-lä-tôn ́), Auguste. Born at Paris, June 17, 1807: died at Paris, Paris, Sept. 21, 1873. A noted French surgeon, profe or in the medical faculty of the University of Paris 1851-67. His chief work is “Éléments de pathologie chirurgicale" ("Ele ments of Surgical Pathology," 1844-60). Neleus (nē'lūs). [Gr. Νηλεύς.] In Greek my. thology, a son of Poseidon and Tyro, founder and king of Pylus in Me enia. He was the father of Nestor. Nellore Nellore (ne-lōr'), or Nellur (ne-lör'). 1. A district in Madras, British India, intersected by lat. 14° 30′ N., long. 80° E. Area, 8,765 square miles. Population (1891), 1,463,736.-2. The capital of the district of Nellore, situated on the Pennair 95 miles north by west of Madras. Population (1891), 29,336. Nelson (nel's on). A name given to the river Saskatchewan in the lower part of its course. Nelson. A seaport at the northern end of South Island, New Zealand, situated in lat. 41° 15′ S., long. 173° 17′E. (lighthouse). Population 1889), 7,733. Nelson, Horatio, first Viscount Nelson. Born at Burnham-Thorpe, Norfolk, England, Sept. 29, 1758: died on board the Victory at Trafalgar, Oct. 21, 1805. A celebrated English admiral. He entered the navy in 1770, and was made post captain at the age of twenty-one, serving in the American At the declaration of war with France in 1793, he war. was made captain of the Agamemnon in the Mediterranean, serving first under Lord Hood and afterward under Admiral Hotham. On Feb. 14, 1797, under Admiral Jervis (later Lord St. Vincent), he fought in the battle off Cape St. Vincent. In May, 1798, he was sent by Lord St. Vincent to intercept Napoleon's expedition to Egypt. In this he failed, but destroyed the French fleet at anchor in the harbor of Abukir, Aug. 1-2. This engagement is called "the battle of the Nile." He retired to Naples, where he became involved in political complications and in an intrigue with the wife of Sir William Hamilton, British envoy to Naples. In 1800 he returned to England and was made vice-admiral and a peer. The battle of Copenhagen was fought April 2, 1801, in order to destroy thutrality man viscut the coalition of the northern powers known as the (second) Copenhagen. The French fleet under Admiral Villeneuve left Toulon in March, 1805, and sailed to the West Indies with the intention of drawing off the English fleet and returning to support Napoleon's projected invasion of Eng land. Nelson followed, and, after Napoleon's plan had been thwarted by the hesitancy of Villeneuve, fought the French-Spanish fleet off Cape Trafalgar, Oct. 21, 1805. He hoisted the signal "England expects that every man will do his duty" at the beginning of this fight. Nelson, Samuel. Born at Hebron, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1792: died at Coopers town, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1873. An American jurist. He was a ociate justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York 1831-37, and chief justice 1837-45; a ociate justice of the United States Supreme Court 1845-72; and a member of the joint high commi ion to settle the Alabama claims in 1871. bucolic e ay, but proves considerably inferior even to this very mediocre model. Teuffel and Schwabe , Hist. of Roman Lit. (tr. by Warr), [II. 289. Nemesis (nem'e-sis). [Gr. Νέμεσις.] In Greek mythology, a godde personifying allotment, or the divine distribution to every man of his precise share of fortune, good and bad. It was her especial function to see that the proper proportion of individual prosperity was preserved, and that any one who became too prosperous, or was too much uplifted by his prosperity, should be reduced or punished: she thus came to be regarded as the godde of divine retribution. Some times Nemesis was represented as winged and with the wheel of fortune, or borne in a chariot drawn by griffins, and confounded with Adrasteia, the godde of the inevitable. Nemesius (ne-mes i-us). [Gr. Νεμέσιος.] Lived in the last part of the 4th century. A theologian, bishop of Emesa: author of a Greek treatise "On the Nature of Man." Nemetes (në-mētēz). [L. (Cæsar) Nemetes , Gr. (Ptolemy) Νεμήτοι: of Gallic origin.] A German tribe, first mentioned by Cæsar as in the army of Ariovistus. They were situated at the left side of the middle Rhine, east of the Vosges, in the region about Spires, where they still remained after the defeat of Ariovistus (B. C. 58). They were probably merged ultimately in the Alamanni. Nemi (nā'mē), Lake of. A small lake 17 miles southeast of Rome, noted for its beauty: the ancient Lacus Nemorensis. It is an extinct crater in the Alban Mountains. Nemo (nēmō). [L., 'no one.'] The signature of illustrating "Pickwick Papers," which Hablot Knight Browne to the first two plates afterward changed to "Phiz.” Nemours (nė-mör'). A town in the department of Seine-et-Marne, France, on the Loing 45 miles Sinance, the Nemours, Duc de (Gaston de Foix). Born in 1489: died April 11, 1512. A celebrated French general. He was the son of Jean de Foix, vicomte de Narbonne, and Marie d'Orléans, sister of Louis XII. Не was created duc de Nemours in 1505. In 1512 he conducted a brilliant campaign against the Spaniards in Italy, and was killed in the pursuit after a great victory won by him at Ravenna, April 11, 1512. Nérac Neot (nē'ot or nēt), Saint. A hermit of the 9th century, whose life, written by a monk of the abbey of St. Neot, is thought to have furnished material for the history of Alfred.