=Nathan the Wise=, a prudent and wealthy old Jew who lives near Jerusalem in the time of Saladin. The play is a species of argument for religious toleration.--G. E. Lessing, _Nathan der Weise_ (1778). =Nathaniel= (_Sir_), the grotesque curate of Holofernês.--Shakespeare, _Love’s Labor’s Lost_ (1594). =Nathos=, one of the three sons of Usnoth, lord of Etha (in Argyllshire), made commander of the Irish army at the death of Cuthullin. For a time he propped up the fortune of the youthful Cormac, but the rebel Cairbar increased in strength and found means to murder the young king. The army under Nathos then deserted to the usurper, and Nathos, with his two brothers, was obliged to quit Ireland. Dar´-Thula, the daughter of Colla, went with them to avoid Cairbar, who persisted in offering her his love. The wind drove the vessel back to Ulster, where Cairbar lay encamped, and the three young men, being overpowered, were slain. As for Dar-Thula, she was pierced with an arrow, and died also.--Ossian, _Dar-Thula_. =Nation of Gentlemen.= The Scotch were so called by George IV., when he visited Scotland in 1822. =Nation of Shopkeepers.= The English were so called by Napoleon I. =National Assembly.= (1) The French deputies which met in the year 1789. The states-general was convened, but the clergy and nobles refused to sit in the same chamber with the commons, so the commons or deputies of the _tiers état_ withdrew, constituted themselves into a deliberative body, and assumed the name of the _Assemblée Nationale_. (2) The democratic French parliament of 1848, consisting of 900 members elected by manhood suffrage, was so called also. =National Convention=, the French parliament of 1792. It consisted of 721 members, but was reduced, first to 500, then to 300. It succeeded the National Assembly. =Natty Bumpo=, called “Leather-stocking.” He appears in five of F. Cooper’s novels: (1) _The Deerslayer_; (2) _The Pathfinder_; (3) “Hawkeye” in _The Last of the Mohicans_; (4) “Natty Bumpo,” in _The Pioneer_; and (5) “The Trapper,” in _The Prairie_, in which he dies. =Nausic´aa= (4 _syl._), daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phœa´cians, who conducted Ulysses to the court of her father when he was shipwrecked on the coast. =Navigation= (_The Father of_), Don Henrique, duke of Viseo, the greatest man that Portugal has produced (1394-1460). _Navigation_ (_The Father of British Inland_), Francis Egerton, duke of Bridgewater (1736-1803). =Neæra=, a name used by Horace, Virgil, Tibullus, and Milton as a synonym of sweetheart. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neæra’s hair. Milton, _Lycidas_ (1638). =Neal´liny= (4 _syl._), a suttee, the young widow of Ar´valan, son of Keha´ma.--Southey, _Curse of Kehama_, i. 11 (1809). =Nebuchadnezzar= [_Ne-boch-ad-ne-Tzar_], in Russian, means “there is no God but the Czar.”--M. D., _Notes and Queries_ (21st July, 1877).