Nehemiah
three persons of this name are mentioned in Scriptu Scripture: One who came with Zerubbabel from Babylon (Ezra ii: Nehanother, the son of Azbuk (Neh. iii: 16); and lastly the celebrated Jewish leader, the son of Hachaliah (Neh. i: 1), and brother of Hanani (i: 2, vii: 2). In modern Hebrew Bibles, as that of Van der Hooght, the Book of Nehemiah is distinct from that of Ezra, immediately following it as one of the Hagiographia. In the Jewish canon, however, the two were treated as a single work. No quotation from the book occurs in the New Testament. The Septuagint translation of the book is badly executed.
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Neilgherry Hills
a mountainous district in the S. of India, rising abruptly from the plains to the height of 6,000 feet, though individual peaks shoot up to 8,760 feet. The mass is entirely isolated, with the exception that a precipitous granite ridge leaves its W. face and connects it with the Western Ghats. The surface consists of grassy uplands with large groves of forest trees; but the lower slopes are heavily timbered. Owing to their great elevation, the Neilgherry Hills have a delightfully cool climate, and are much resorted to on this account by invalided Europeans, the principal station being Ootacamund.
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Neill
CHARLES PATRICK, American educator and statistician, born in Rock Island, Ill., 1865; graduated from Georgetown University; became instructor in Notre Dame University; head of economic department of Catholic University, 1897-1905; was assistant recorder for Anthracite Coal Strike Commission; appointed Commissioner of Labor by President Roosevelt, remaining as such under Taft and Wilson; resigned in 1913 to organize the Labor and Welfare Department of the American Smelting & Refining Co., New York City. In 1915 he went to Washington to organize a bureau of information for the Southeastern railways.
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Neisse
a town of Prussian Silesia, and an important fortress of the second rank; in a broad valley on the Neisse, an affluent of the Oder; 47 miles S. E. of Breslau. It manufactures tapestry, linen, and chemicals and has great wool ma markets. Pop. about 27,500. Neisse was formerly the chief town of a principality, and residence of a princebishop.
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Nejd
or NEJED (Arabic, "elevated country"), a term sometimes used as an element in Arabic place-names, but used absolutely to signify the country in the interior of Arabia forming the Central Wahabi kingdom. A great part of its surface is sandy desert interspersed with fertile spots. The more elevated districts feed immense droves of camels and the best breeds of Arab horses, Chief town Riad, the Wahagi capital; pop. about 28,000.
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Nelson River
a stream issuing Winnipeg from the N. end of Lake in Canada, and, after a N. E. course of 400 miles through Keewatin, falling into Hudson Bay. It discharges an enormous for quantity of water, and is navigable only 127 miles from its mouth, though steamers. about 70 or 80 miles for large
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Nelsonville
a town of Ohio in . Athens co., 62 miles S. E. of Columbus Hocking River and It is situated on the . The on the Hocking Valley railroad town is the center of an important coal mining industry. It has manufactories of brick, sewer pipe, mining implements, 6,082; car wheels, etc. Pop., (1910) (1920) 6,440.
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Nelumbium
the typical and only genus of the order Nelumbiacea. The species are remarkable for the beauty of their flowers. N. speciosum has magwhite. nificent flowers, magenta or
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Nelumbo
the American lotus. The yellow American lotus is abundant about the Great Lakes and in the shallow bayou waters of the central Mississippi. Local, Ontario to Florida. The ripened seeds are contained in a pithy "rattlebox." See Lotus
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Nemaea
A town of Argolis, with a wood where Hercules in the sixteenth year of his age killed the celebrated Nemaean lion. It was the first of the labors of Hercules to destroy the monster, and when he found that his arrows and clubs were useless against an animal whose skin was impenetrable, he seized it in his arms and strangled it.
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Nemea
in ancient geography, a deep is in and well-watered valley of Argolis in the Peloponnesus, between Cleonæ and Phlius. It possessed a sacred grove, with a magnificent temple of Zeus, called and was celebrated for the games the Nemean Games, one of the great national festivals of the Greeks.
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Nemi
LAKE OF, an extinct crater, 20 miles S. of Rome, accounted for its beauty the gem of the Alban Mountains. There was here a famous temple of Diana, portions of which have been recently excavated.
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Nemophila
a genus of Hydrophyllaceæ, with pinnatifid leaves and conspicuous flowers. Several species are found in the United States, chiefly in California. The best known is N. insignis, which has brilliant blue flowers with a white center. It is prized in gardens as a border plant.
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Nemours
an ancient department of Seinetown in the French et-Marne, 40 miles S. E. of Paris. It second son of gave a ducal title to the Louis Philippe.
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Neo-Celt
a term used to describe the revival among scholars and writers of the Celtic spirit, and the Celtic past and also the Celtic literary revival in years of the 19th Ireland in the last of century. Scholars and translators poets, Gaelic literature and Anglo-Celtic dramatists, and story-writers caught the ancient celtic manner, while Irish as a spoken tongue was cultivated by the Gaelic League. In English the Neo- Celtic movement finds its best expression of W. B. Yeats and Fiona in the poems McLeod (William Sharp), and in the dramas of John Synge, and work of the scholars and translators Kuno Meyer, . Douglas Hyde, and Lady Gregory
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Neo-Platonism
the name given to an important movement in the Alexandrian school. G. H. Lewes says that their originality consisted in having employed the Platonic Dialectics as a guide to Mysticism and Pantheism; in having connected the doctrine of the East with the dialectics of the Greeks; in having made Reason the justification of faith; their Diaand he concludes that "by lectics they were Platonists; by their theory of the Trinity they were Mystics; by their principle of Emanation they were Pantheists." Neoplatonperiods: (1) ism passed through three That of Ammonius Saccas and Plotinus, A in the 3d century; (2) that of Porphyry and Iamblichus, in the 4th century; and (3) that of Proclus (412-485). Under Justinian (483-565) the Alexandrian school became extinct.
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