eyance are
found to be only blank sheets of parchment, the writing having been
erased by some chemical acids.

=New Zealander=, It was Macaulay who said the time might come when some
"New Zealand artist shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his
stand on a broken arch of London bridge to sketch the ruins of St.
Paul's."

[Asterism] Shelley was before Macaulay in the same conceit.--See
_Dedication of Peter Bell the Third_.

=Newcastle= (_The duchess of_), in the court of Charles II.).[TN-32]--Sir
W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.).

_Newcastle_ (_The marquis of_), a royalist in the service of Charles
I.--Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time, Charles I.).

=Newcastle Apothecary= (_The_), Mr. Bolus, of Newcastle, used to write his
prescriptions in rhyme. A bottle bearing the couplet, "When taken to be
well shaken," was sent to a patient, and when Bolus called next day to
inquire about its effect, John told the apothecary his master was dead.
The fact is, John had shaken the _sick man_ instead of the bottle, and
had shaken the life out of him.--G. Colman, Jr.

=Newcome= (_Clemency_), about 30 years old, with a plump and cheerful
face, but twisted into a tightness that made it comical. Her gait was
very homely, her limbs seemed all odd ones; her shoes were so
self-willed that they never wanted to go where her feet went. She wore
blue stockings, a printed gown of hideous pattern and many colors, and a
white apron. Her sleeves were short, her elbows always grazed, her cap
anywhere but in the right place; but she was scrupulously clean, and
"maintained a kind of dislocated tidiness." She carried in her pocket "a
handkerchief, a piece of wax-candle, an apple, an orange, a lucky penny,
a cramp-bone, a padlock, a pair of scissors, a handful of loose beads,
several balls of worsted and cotton, a needle-case, a collection of
curl-papers, a biscuit, a thimble, a nutmeg-grater, and a few
miscellaneous articles." Clemency Newcome married Benjamin Britain, her
fellow-servant at Dr. Jeddler's, and opened a country inn called the
Nutmeg-Grater, a cozy, well-to-do place as any one could wish to see,
and there were few married people so well matched as Clemency and Ben
Britain.--C. Dickens, _The Battle of Life_ (1846).

_Newcome_ (_Colonel_), a widower, distinguished for the moral beauty of
his life. He loses his money and enters the Charter House.

_Clive Newcome_, his son. He is in love with Eth