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New Mills. I'rlnin (list, and 

 town of Derbyshire, England. It 

 stands on the Goyt, 8 m. 8.E. of 

 Stockport, being 

 served by the 

 L. ft N.W. and 

 the G.C. rlys. 

 The industries 

 include calico- 

 printing, cotton 

 band manufac- 



New Mill* urban 

 district leal 



tures, and coal- 

 mining. Gas and 

 water are supplied by the council. 

 Market day, Sat. Pop. 10,500. 



Newmilns. Police burgh of 

 Avrsliiiv. Scotland. It stands on 

 the Irvine, 7 ra. from Kilraarnock 

 and 18 m. from 

 Ayr, and is 

 served by the 

 Glasgow and 

 S.W. Rly. There 

 is a town hall, 

 the gift of Wil- 

 liam Morton. 



Newmilns was Newmilns and 

 made a burgh in Greenholm arms 

 1490, and had a castle about that 

 time, but its modern prosperity 

 dates from the introduction of the 

 lace and other textile manufactures 

 in the 19th century. The burgh in- 

 cludes Greenholm on the opposite 

 side of the river. Pop. 4,800. 



New Model Army. Name 

 given to the army raised in 1645 by 

 the Parliament to fight against 

 Charles I. After the passing of the 

 self-denying ordinance, and the 

 consequent resignations of some 

 of the leading generals, Parliament 

 raised from the existing army and 

 by impressment a special force of 

 14,000 infantry and 7,000 cavalry. 

 It was placed under Sir Thomas 

 Fairfax, was known as the new 

 model army, and quickly became a 

 drilled and disciplined force. On 

 June 13, 1645, Cromwell joined it 

 as leader of the cavalry, and on the 

 next day it fought and won the 

 battle of Naseby. The Coldstream 

 Guards trace their descent to the 

 New Model. See Army, British; 

 Cromwell, Oliver. 



Newnan. City of Georgia, 

 U.S.A., the capital of Coweta co. 

 It is situated 40 m. S.S.W. of 

 Atlanta and is served by the At- 

 lanta and West Point and other 

 rlys. Phosphates and fertilisers are 

 manufactured ; cotton, cotton- 

 seed oil, and cotton goods are ex- 

 ported ; iron-foundries and ma- 

 chine shops produce boilers, tanks, 

 etc. The city owns the waterworks 

 and electricity plant. It is the 

 centre of a rich fruit-growing dist. 

 Pop. 7,000. 



Newnes. Town of New South 

 Wales, Australia. It is in Cook co., 

 on the central tableland, 35 m. 

 N.N.E. of Lithgow. Noted for its 



Sir George Newnes, 

 .British publisher 



Langfler 



New Norfolk. Town in Tas- 

 mania. It stands on the Derwcnt, 

 20 m. N.W. of Hobart by rly. It 

 is the centre of a fruit and hop 

 growing dist. Pop. 6,100. 



New Orleans. City and port of 

 Louisiana, U.S.A. The capital of 

 Orleans parish and the largest city 

 and the commercial capital of the 

 state, it stands mainly on the 

 left bank of the Mississippi river, 

 107 m. from its mouth, and is 

 served by the Southern Pacific and 

 other rlys. Much of the land bor- 

 dering the <:ity proper is marshy 



mines of oil shale, it Li the terminus student*, under a principal, 4 

 of a branch line from Newnes tutors, and 17 resident lecturers 

 .Inn. -lion on the main western rly. and fellows. The .allege offers 

 from Sydney to Bourke. Pop. 1,600. scholarships. See A Short History 

 Newnes, SIR GEOROK (1851- of Newnham College, Cambridge. 

 1910). Founder of the publishing A. Gardner, 1921. 

 firm of George Newnes, Ltd. Son 

 of the Rev. 

 T. M. Newnes, 

 Congregational 

 minister, he was 

 born at Glen- 

 orchy, Mat lock 

 Bath, March 13, 

 1851, and edu- 

 cated at Sil- 

 coates and the 

 City of London 

 School. Begin- 

 ning life in the 



fancy goods trade, he started the 

 weekly periodical, Tit-Bits (q.v. ), at 

 Manchester, 1881, and brought it 

 in 1884 to London. Later he issued 

 The Strand Magazine, The Sunday 

 Strand, The Wide- World Magazine, 

 The Ladies' Field, Woman's Life, 

 and other publications, including 

 books. In 1893 he started The 

 Westminster Gazette (q.v.). His 

 firm, turned into a limited company 

 in 1891, was reconstructed in 1897, 

 and in 1920 joined forces with that 

 of C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd. He 

 was Liberal M.P. for Newmarket, 

 1885-95, and for Swansea, 1900-10. 

 Made a baronet, 1895, he gave a 

 library building to Putney and a 

 town hall to Lynton, N. Devon, 

 where he died June 9, 1910. 

 See Life, Hulda Friederichs, 1911. 

 Newnham College. College 

 for women, Cambridge. Founded 

 for resident women students in 

 1871 by the Newnham Hall Com- 

 pany, the first hall was built in 

 1875. Five years later the com- 

 pany was amalgamated with the 

 Association for Promoting the 

 Higher Education of Women in 



Cambridge, and the society was dour. The most noteworthy are the 

 incorporated. The college includes cathedral of S. Louis, a Creole- 

 Spanish structure erected 1794, the 

 archbishop's palace, dating from 

 1737, the granite custom house 

 near the E. end of Canal Street, 

 and the Cotton Exchange. 



Institutions for higher education 

 are the Tulane University, known 

 formerly as the university of 

 Louisiana, with faculties of law. 

 arts and sciences, medicine, and 

 technology, the Or- 

 loans and three 

 other universities 

 for coloured stu- 

 dents, the Ursuline 

 Academy, founded 

 1730, the oldest 

 educational estab- 

 lishment in thecity, 

 and the Jesuit Col- 



Hewnham College. Cambridge. Sidgwick Hall and. Ie 8 e ' opened 1847. 

 right, Clough Hall, from the south Among a number of 



ing of embankments called levees, 

 which extend along the city front 

 and for many miles up and down 

 the river. The city covers an area 

 of about 200 sq. m., but the in- 

 habited portion is only about 40 

 sq. m. hi extent It has 27 m. of 

 frontage, on both banks of the 

 river, which at a point opposite 

 Canal Street is half a mile wide 

 and from 40 ft. to 200 ft. in depth. 



The streets in the central part 

 are mostly narrow, but in the 

 suburbs are broad and lined with 

 trees. Canal Street, which separ- 

 ates the picturesque old French 

 section from the newer and com- 

 mercial American part, is the 

 principal business thoroughfare. 

 The principal open spaces are the 

 Audubon Park of 250 acres, the 

 City Park of 216 acres, and Jack- 

 son Square, Beauregard Square, 

 and Lafayette Square. 



With few exceptions the public 

 buildings lack architectural splen- 



Old Hall (the original Newnham 

 Hall), Sidgwick Hall, Clough Hall, 

 so named after the first principal, 

 Anne J. Clough (q.v.), Peile Hall, 

 and College Hall, the last named 

 used for dinners, concerts, etc. It 

 is undenominational, and has a 

 laboratory in the town for bio- 

 logical and physical studies. There 

 is accommodation for over 200 



