DAVID**, the founder of city missions, was born in Glasgow in 1799, and was early placed in a mercantile house. From the age of fourteen onwards, his life was devoted to the welfare of his fellow-men. He began his philanthropic career by imparting religious instruction to prisoners, and exerting himself to establish schools and Bible associations. The next undertaking that engaged his attention was the establishment of young men's societies. So successfully did he execute this project, that between 1823 and 1826 he had been the means of instituting seventy of these associations in Great Britain, France, and America. He then addressed himself to the great work of his life, the converting of the irreligious of large towns. The Glasgow city mission, established in 1826, was the first result of his zeal. Stimulated by this success, he resolved in 1828 to devote himself entirely to his great enterprise, and accordingly resigned his situation of clerk to the Institution House in his native town, an office which he had held for seven years. On a scanty pittance, supplied by some friends, Nasmith travelled through Ireland, the United States, and Canada, founding missions in all the large towns which he visited. The British capital was the next great field of his labour. Taking up his abode there in 1833, the unwearyed philanthropist was engaged for the remainder of his life in establishing the London city missions. Meanwhile the rest of the country was frequently visited, and similar institutions were founded in the large towns of England, and in Edinburgh and the other principal towns... Nasmyth, Alexander, a popular Scottish artist, was born in Edinburgh in 1758. His first lessons in art were received in London under Allan Ramsay, and he completed his studies in historical, landscape, and portrait painting during a residence of several years at Rome. Then returning to his native country, he settled down in Edinburgh as a portrait-painter. Among other likenesses, he executed the well-known portrait of Robert Burns. In course of time, however, his strong taste for sketching landscapes led him to concentrate his attention exclusively on this kind of painting. The pictures he began to produce were not characterized by vigorous pencilling or life-like colouring; yet their tasteful simplicity and careful finish rendered them popular among his countrymen. At the same time, he was rising into notice as a teacher of his art. His services in this vocation continued to be more and more appreciated, until he had acquired, in his later years, both ample practice and large emoluments. He died at Edinburgh in 1840. His eldest son and his five daughters inherited their father's artistic skill.

Nasmyth, Patrick, an eminent artist, was the eldest son of the preceding, and was born in Edinburgh in 1786. Like several others of his gifted family, he took to the pencil instinctively at a very early age. His right hand was shortly afterwards damaged by an accident. But its cunning was soon acquired by the left. The almost exclusive attention which he bestowed upon his art speedily rendered him a proficient. Fixing his abode in London at the age of twenty, he plied his pencil in landscape-painting with great vigour and success. The style of his father, which he had adopted, was much improved by the greater warmth of his colouring. His subjects were sometimes Scottish scenery, but he was more successful in representing the placid brooks and rich meadow-landscapes of England. The careful minuteness of detail in some of his pictures was especially admired, and acquired for him the surname of "the English Hobbema." Stimulated by growing popularity, Nasmyth prosecuted his art as enthusiastically as ever. With a reckless ardour he continued to pursue his studies in the open country, under the most inclement weather, until he fell into a decline. As he lay dying in his lodgings in South Lambeth, on the 17th August 1831, a terrific thunder-storm passed over the city. He desired to be raised in bed that he might look on it. Before the thunder had rolled away he had expired.

Naso, a town of Sicily, in the province of Messina, is situated on a hill near the coast, in a richly-wooded country, 43 miles W.S.W. of Messina. It is surrounded by walls, and contains several good buildings. Some trade is carried on at Naso. In the vicinity there are mineral springs. Pop. 8000.