NEUVILLE-V1TASSE 



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NEVILLE 



Neuville-Vitasse. Village of 

 France, in the dept. of Pas-de- 

 Calais. It is 4 m. S.E. of Arras. It 

 was prominent in the Great War, 

 being captured after heroic efforts 

 by the 3rd London regt. and 8th 

 Middlesex (56th div.), April 9, 



is followed by the Southern 

 Pacific Ely. ; its course ends in 

 the Humboldt and Carson " sinks." 

 Mining is the chief industry ; gold 

 and silver are worked. There is a 

 university at Reno. The rlys. have 

 a total length of 2,310 m. Carson 



1917. Recaptured by the Germans City is the capital, but there are 

 in their spring offensive of 1918, it no large centres of population, 

 was regained by the British in Aug. xrmdn. wa.* rmrt, nf the tern 

 of that year. This village, along 

 with the ruined town of Vieille- 

 Chapelle (N.E. of Bethune), has 

 been "adopted" by the London 

 borough of Paddington, as they 



had associations with men of that 

 locality in the war. See Arras, 

 Battles of ; Vimy. 



Neuwied, Germany. Palace formerly belonging to the 

 princes of Wied 



Neuwied. Town of Germany, in 

 the Rhine prov. of Prussia. It is 

 8 m. from Coblenz on the right 

 bank of the Rhine, where it is 

 joined by the little river Wied. 

 The chief building is the palace, 

 once the residence of the princes of 

 Wied, which stands in a large park. 

 The chief industries are iron-found- 

 ing and the making of starch, 

 sugar, tobacco, etc. A feature of 

 the place is the Moravian colony, 

 to one of whose schools here George 

 Meredith was sent as a youth. 

 In the little county of Wied, Neu- 

 wied was founded by one of the 

 counts in 1653, and was made their 

 residence. There had been a village 

 here previously named Langen- 

 dorf. Pop. 20,000. 



Neva. River of N.W. Russia, in 

 the govt. of Petrograd. Rising in 

 Lake Ladoga, it flows S.W., then 

 N.W. through Petrograd, and, 

 dividing into several branches, dis- 

 charges itself into the Bay of Neva 

 in the- Gulf of Finland. It is an 

 important commercial waterway, 

 the final link in the communication 

 between Petrograd and the White 

 and Caspian Seas. Length 45 m. 



Nevada. Western state of the 

 U.S.A. Lying almost entirely 

 within the Great Basin, its surface 

 (mean alt. 3,750 ft. ) is marked by 

 numerous small mt. ranges and 

 " sinks," or marshy tracts of land 

 converted at times into large lakes ; 

 many of the valleys which separate 

 the mt. ranges are from 10 m. to 

 20 m. broad. The principal river 

 is the Humboldt, whose direction 



Nevada was part of the territory 

 taken from Mexico in 1848. It be- 

 came a state of the U.S.A. in 1864, 

 and sends two senators and one 

 representative to Congress. For 

 local affairs the state of Nevada has 

 a legislature of two houses. Its area 

 is 110,700 sq. m. Pop. 98,800, of 

 whom 5,000 are Indians. 



Nevada City. 

 City of California, 

 d^_ U.S.A., the co. 



seat of Nevada 

 co. A health re- 

 sort, 165 m. N.E. 

 of San Francisco, 

 it is served by a 

 narrow gauge rly. 

 Its buildings 

 include the co. 

 court house and a 

 Carnegie library. 

 The district is rich 

 in gold, and mining, agriculture, and 

 dairy f arming are carried on. Settled 

 in 1849, Nevada City was incor- 

 porated in 1851, reincorporated in 

 1856, and again in 1875. 



Nevers. City of France. It 

 stands where the Nievre falls into 

 the Loire, 32 m. from Bourges and 

 160 from Paris, and is the capital of 

 the dept. of Nievre. The cathedral 

 of S. Cyr was begun in the llth 

 century and finished about 1500. 

 It was originally two buildings, and 

 is Romanesque at one end and 

 Gothic at the other. The church of 

 S. Etienne is noteworthy. The 

 castle in which the counts and dukes 

 of Nevers lived is now the palais 

 de justice and a museum. It was 

 built in the 15th century, replacing 

 an earlier edifice. Of the city's 

 fortifications a tower remains. 

 There are a town hall, a triumphal 

 arch, and a number of old houses 

 in the steep and narrow streets. 

 The industries 

 include potteries, i 

 tanneries, oil * 

 mills, iron-found- | 

 ries, and the 

 making of boots 

 and shoes. 



Nevers began as 

 a Roman settle- 

 ment. About 500 

 a bishopric was 

 founded here, and 

 about 1000 the 

 counts of Nevers 

 appeared, the 

 county being 

 known as the Nevers, France. 



Lady Dorothy 



Nevill, 

 British writer 



Elliott & Fry 



Nivernais. At one time in posses- 

 sion of the dukes of Burgundy, it 

 was made a duchy about 1530. The 

 last duke, a member ofjthe family of 

 Mazarini, died in 1798. Pop. 27,700. 

 Neviansk OR NEVIANSKI ZAVOD. 

 Town of E. Russia. It is in the 

 govt. of Perm, stands on the Nieva 

 and the Ekaterinburg rly., 45 m. 

 N.W. of Ekaterinburg. There are 

 iron-foundries and smelting works, 

 and gold is found. Pop. 18,000. 



Nevill, LA'DY DOROTHY FANNY 

 (1826-1913). British writer. She 

 was born in London, April 1, 1826, 

 daughter of 

 Horatio Wai- 

 pole, third earl of 

 Orford (1783- 

 1858). In 1847 

 she married 

 her cousin 

 Reginald Nevill 

 (d. 1878), and 

 became known 

 as a hostess. 

 She was author 

 of Mannington 

 and the Walpoles, earls of Orford, 

 1894; Reminiscences, 1906; Leaves 

 from the Note Books of Lady 

 Dorothy Nevill, 1907 ; Under Five 

 Reigns, 1910 ; and My Own Times, 

 1912. She died March 24, 1913. 



Her third son, Ralph Henry, was 

 educated at Eton and Magdalene 

 College, Cambridge, served in the 

 diplomatic service, and was at- 

 tached, 1916-19, to the intelligence 

 department of the Admiralty. In 

 addition to his Life and Letters 

 of Lady Dorothy Nevill, 1919, he 

 wrote The Merry Past, The Roman- 

 tic Past, The Man of Pleasure, 

 London Clubs, Echoes Old and 

 New, Floreat Etona, etc. 



Neville. Name of an English 

 family. Founded in the 12th cen- 

 tury, it was connected with Dur- 

 ham, Northumberland, and York- 

 shire. Ralph (d. 1367), 2nd baron, 

 defeated and captured David 

 Bruce at the battle of Neville's 

 Cross, 1346. Another Ralph (1364- 

 1425) became earl of Westmor- 

 land and married a daughter of 

 John of Gaunt; while his daughters 



Gothic east end of the cathedral of S. Cyi 



