NOTTS 



7 -41, by a racecourse, 



I liy tho namo of Hippo- 



ili. .mi- Place. The district, built 



IS28-48, was named fn>m 



the manor of KnoUmi; <>r Nuttmu 



. o\v ni-il Ity John 



of Oxford in tin- 1 inn- 1 >f Kdwurd IV 



See Old Kew, Chinwick, and K. n 



L. I'. Sanders, 1910. 



Notts. Abbrev. for 

 liim-lu'.-. Kngland. Notts County 

 is the name of a leading Associa- 

 tion football club. Founded about 

 1862, it soon became a professional 

 organization. The ground is in 

 the city of Nottingham. In 1894 

 tho club won the Association Cup, 

 :md rxcept for one or two years it 

 has been a member of the Football 

 League since its inception in 1888. 



Noumenon (Gr. no-oumenon,. 

 anything thought). Object of pure 

 thought, opposed to phenomenon, 

 the object of sensation. Kant 

 further distinguishes the object 

 known by the mind from the nou- 

 menon. which can be conceived but 

 not known. The object is relative 

 to intelligence generally ; the nou- 

 iiR-non is relative to nothing it is 

 the thing-in-itself, not the thing 

 as we see it. Pron. No-oomenon. 



Noun (Lat. women, name). In 

 grammar, a word denoting a person 

 or thing (noun substantive), or a 

 quality (noun adjective). The 

 term substantive (substantiviui, 

 self-existent) is due to the gram- 

 marians of the Middle Ages. Nouns 

 substantive may be divided into 

 abstract, expressing an attribute 

 of a person or thing (virtue, 

 beauty ) ; concrete, designating 

 real persons or things, to which 

 such attributes belong ; concrete 

 nouns being further divided into 

 proper, distinguishing any par- 

 ticular living being or inanimate 

 object from others of the same 

 kind (Henry, London) ; common, 

 embracing all persons or things 

 belonging to the same class (man, 

 dog, house) ; collective, designating 

 a collection of persons or things 

 regarded as forming a whole (army, 

 multitude, heap) ; partitive, indi- 

 cating a part, variable in amount, of 

 a collective whole. See Name. 



Nouvelle Revue, LA. French 

 review, republican in policy, pub- 

 lished in Paris on the 1st and 15th 

 of each month. It was founded 

 Oct. 1, 1879, by Mme. Juliette 

 Adam, and from the first addressed 

 itself to growing talent, to the 

 practical rather than the theoreti- 

 cal consideration of literature and 

 the drama, contemporary history, 

 political economy, commerce, fin- 

 ance, and education. See Adam, J. 



Nova Bana. Town in the 

 Slovakia division of the Czecho- 

 slovak republic, formerly known 

 as tJjbanya (q.v.). 



5791 



Novaculito (Lat. n<- 

 razor). In geology, name given to 

 a fine-grained rock consUn 

 mall quartz particle*. Several 

 varieties of novaculite are used 

 as hones (q.v.). 



Nova Geminorum I and II. 

 Name given to two new start* in the 

 constellation of Gemini. The first 

 was discovered on a photograph 

 taken at Oxford, March 16, 1903, 

 and the second early in 1912 at 

 Dombaas in Norway. The latter 

 was a star of the llth magnitude, 

 when it suddenly blazed in two 

 days into one of the 3rd magnitude. 

 From spectroscopic analysis it is 

 probable that the sudden increase 

 in brightness was due to a collision 

 between the star and a dark nebula. 

 Consult The Spectrum of Nova 

 Geminorum II, F. J. M. Stratton, 

 1921. 



Novaia Zemlia. Archipelago 

 of the Arctic Ocean, belon^'iiiL' to 

 Russia. It stretches N.N.R. be- 

 tween Barents Sea on the W. and 

 Kara Sea on the E., and is separ- 

 ated from Waigats Island by Bur- 

 roughs Strait. It is composed 

 mainly of two large islands, divided 

 by the Matochkin Shar or Matthew 

 Strait ; that to the S. is called 

 Goose Land (q.v.), while the N. 

 island is divided into Barents Land 

 in the N., Lutkes Land in the 

 centre, and Matthews Land in the 

 S. A large number of small islands, 

 mainly off the E. coast, combine to 

 make the archipelago. The total 

 land area is estimated at 35, 1 50 sq. m. 

 Novalis (1772-1801). Pseudo- 

 nym of Friedrich Ludwig von 

 Hardenberg, German writer. He 

 was born May 

 2, 1772, at 

 Wicderstedt, 

 Prussia, and 

 studied philo- 

 sophy at Jena 

 and law at 

 Leipzig and 

 Witte n b e r g, 

 where he grad- 

 uated in 1794. 

 In the follow- 

 ing year he fell in love with the 

 beautiful Sophie von Kiihn, whose 

 death in 1797, at 

 the age of 15, 

 proved a great 

 blow to him. In 

 1800 he was at 

 Freiburg, study ing 

 mineralogy, when 

 pulmonary con- 

 sumption declared 

 itself, and he died 

 a t Weissenfels, 

 March 25, 1801. 



His Hymnen an 

 die Nacht ( Hymns 

 to the Night), 

 1800, written after 



Novalis, 

 German writer 



NOVARA 



be lost his betrothed, breathe a 

 lofty spirituality. Apart from ro- 

 mantic philosophical fragment* and 

 those hymns, his chief work u a 

 great unfinished romance, Heinrich 

 von Ofterdingen, in which the sym- 

 bolism of the pur-nit of the blue 

 flower by the hero is an interesting 

 precursor of Maeterlinck's Blue 

 Bird. His works were edited by 

 L. Tieck and F. Schlegel, 1802. 

 His correspondence was published 

 in I "Mi. .S'<* MMccllaneoii* Ha-say*. 

 T. ( ailx I.-. v..|. 2. 1829: F. von Har- 

 denberg. . I. Bing. 1899; Novalis der 

 i:..m uiir..-r. K. Heilborn, 1901. 

 Novar, RONALD CRAUFURD Mux- 

 ^OOCNT (b. 1860). 

 British administrator. The son of 

 Col. R. Munro- 

 Ferguson o f 

 Raith, Fife 

 shire, he was 

 educated a t 

 Sandhurst, 

 and, after a 

 term in the 

 Grenadier 

 Guards, e n- 

 tered the 

 House of Com- 

 mons as Lib- 

 eral M.P. for Rosa and Cromarty in 

 1884. He lost his seat in 1885, and 

 in 1886 was returned for the Leith 

 Burghs, a constituency he repre- 

 sented until 1914. In 1894-95 he 

 was for a short time a lord of the 

 treasury. A privy councillor since 

 1910, Munro-Ferguson was gover- 

 nor-general of Australia from 1914 

 to 1920, in Dec. of which year he 

 was made Viscount Novar He was 

 Secretary for Scotland, 1922-24. 



Novara. Frontier prov. of 

 Italy, in Piedmont. It is bounded 

 N. by Switzerland, S. by Ales- 

 sandria, W. by Turin, and E, by 

 Como, Milan, and Pa via. Its area 

 is 2,548 sq. m. Pop. 768,700. 



Novara. City of Italy, capital 

 of the prov. of Novara. Situated 

 on an eminence between the rivers 

 Terdoppio and Agogna, it is a 

 junction 31 m. by rly. W. of Milan. 

 Among ita many handsome edifices 

 are the Romanesque cathedral, 

 dating from the 4th century, with 



Ronald Munro- 

 Ferguson, 

 Viscount Novar 



Kutitll 



Novara, Italy. Dome o( S. Gaudenuo, 397 ft nico, and 



part ot the cathedral, right centre, teen from the 



Largo Bellini 



