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NEVILLE. i23 See Wabwick, IUciiabd Neville, Earl NEW ARCHANGEL. maker, of. NEVILLE'S CROSS, Battle of. A battle between the Siolcli anil the English, fought on Uituber 17, l.'J4l). Uuring the Hundred Years' War (q.v.) the Seoteh were the firm allies of the Freneh, and when Edward 111. invaded France, Kin" David II. of Scotland prepared to harass England. lie was met, however, at Neville's Cross, near Durham, by the English under Henry good roadstead and a population (I'JOl) of 1383. The island was discovered by Columbus in 1498. It was colonized by the English in 1628. In 1S99 it sull'ered from a disastrous hurricane. NEVIS, liE.M. See Be. Nevis. NEVOME, neviVma. A Mexican Indian tribe I'f I'iiiian stotU. numbering aljout SUOO. NEVSKI (nyef'skO) PROSPEKT'. The chief street of Saint Petersburg, extending for about Percv and Ralph Neville. The English, owin<' to *'"" ""'^^ '° * str'Ug'it line, and faced by some their archers, were completely victorious, and "f^ the ^hnest ^.sjiops ,T.nd public buildings of the David himself was captured. See Bbuce, D.vid. " ' * '" ' " '"" '*' NEVIN, Etiielhert (1^*02-1901). An Ameri- can composer, born at Edgeworth, Pa. .After thorough preparation under local music teachers, he went to Ucilin ( 1.S84I and became a pupil of Von Biilow and Karl Klindworth, the former of whom particularly encouraged his natural gift for composition. He returned to Bos- ton in 1887 and settled there, devoting himself largely to composition, but after 1893 he spent much of his time in Europe, mostly in Paris, the south of France, Italy, and Algiers. He returned to America in 1900, and became associated with H. N. Parker in the department of music at Yale University. Of his compositions, which are almost entirelj- in the smaller forms, Xunissiis, a piano numlier, published in a group entitled ir«(er Sketches, and the song The liosury, were perhaps the most popular. He was the composer of many songs, instrumental pieces and waltzes. city. It is 150 feet in width, and in winter presents a scene of great animation. NEW, Jon. CiiAU-ANT ( IS.'? 1 — ) . An Ameri- can politician, born at A'ernon, Ind. He gradu- ated at Bethany College, (West) Virginia, in 1S.")1, and settled in Indianapolis, where lie was admitted to the bar in 18.52. In 18(il he was appointed quartermaster-general of Indiana, a post which he held throughout the Civil War. In 1862 he was a member of the Indiana State Senate. After the war he engaged for several years in hanking, and in 1875 was appointed by President Grant, Treasurer of the United States. In 1882 President .Arthur appointed him .Assist- ant Secretary of the Treasury. He was active in securing the nomination and election of Benja- min Harrison in 1888 to the Presidency, and as a reward for his services was appointed United States Consul-(!eneral at London, England, which position he held until 1892. NEW ACADEMY. A school of Greek phi- almost all of which are marked by the delicate losophers, the successors and expositors of Plato, daintiness and originality which was character- The various schools classed under the name of the istic of his work. He died at New Haven, Conn. Academy arc dilfercntlv divided bv modern his- NEVIN, .John W^illiamson (180.3-86). An American clergyman. He was born in Franklin County, Pa., graduated from Union College in 1821, stuilied theology at Princeton, and taught Hebrew there from 1826 to 1828. Frnm 1.S29 to 1840 he was professor of Hebrew and biblical lit- erature in the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Pa. From here he went to the theo- logical seminary of the Reformed (German; torians. The third school, headed by Carneades (q.v. ), is sometimes refiMred to as the New -Academy, though it is perhaps more often classed, with the second, under the name of lliddle, the New beginning a little later with Philo of Laris- sa, who founded the fourth school. NEW ALBANY. A city and the county- seat of Floyd County,. Ind. ; on the north bank of the Ohio River, two miles below the falls, and Church at Mercersburg, where he taught theology opposite Louisville, Ky., with which it is con- until 1851. He was president of :Marsliall Col- lege. Mercersburg, from 1841 to 1853. After this institution had united with Franklin College at Lancaster under the name of Franklin and Marshall, he served as president from 1866 to 1876. He was one of the founders of the 'Mer- nected by a long railroad bridge, and on the Louisville, Evansville an<l Saint L<mis. the Louis- ville. New Albany and Chicago, the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, and the Pittsburg. Cincin- nati. Chicago and Saint l.ouis railroads (Map: Indiana. D 4). It has a fine citv hall and court cersbnr;; theolog^ (q.v.). He was the editor of house, post olTice and custom house, large fair and principal contributor to The Mercer.ihiirfi Re- groimds, De Pauw College for women, and a pub- viiir from 1849 to 1853. He published: liihlical I'c library. In the suburbs there is a national Antiquities (2 vols., 1828: revised ed. 1849 Thr Anxious Bench (1842) ; The Mi/slical Prcs- enrr (1846) : Uinton) and Genius nf the Tlcidel- brrfl Cnfechism (1847); Antichrist; or, the f'/iirit nf Sect and Schi.<tm (1848). Consult his bingniphy by .Appel (Philadelphia, 1889). NEVIS, nf'vls. One of the Leeward Islands in the West Indies, belonging to Great Britain. II lies two miles southeast of Saint Christopher, with which it is administratively connected (Map: West Indies. Q 6). .Area. 50 square mills. It consists largely of nn extinct volcano, 3596 feet high and wooded at the summit. The lower slopes are fertile and well cultivated, pro- ducing sugar-cane and some limes and oranges. The population in 1891 was 13.087. and in 1901, 12,774. The chief town is Charlcstown, with a cemetery which contains 2908 graves, 676 of un- known dead. The city controls large conuuereial interests, and is an important manufacturing centre, having tanneries, woolen mills, furniture factories, engine and boiler works, rolling, plan- ing, and flour mills, iron foundries. ]ilale glass works, and pork-packing establishments. New .Albany was laid out in 1813 and incorporated as a city in 1839, the charter of that year being still in operation and providing for a mayor, chosen everv four years, and a unicameral council, which eU'cts subordinate nuinicipal officers. Population, in 1890. 21.059: in 1900. 20.628. NEW AMSTERDAM. The name of New York City (i|.v.l inider the Dutch. NEW ARCHAN'GEL. The former name of Sitka (q.v.).