The Clarendon Press has issued a new part of the
tenth volume of the great Oxford English Dictionary. This part, edited by Dr. Craigie (2s. 6d. net), completes the letter " V," from " Visor " to " Vywer," an obsolete form of " viewer." We are told in the Preface that, while Dr. Johnson recorded 149 words in this section of the letter "V," "Murray" records 1,571 words. It is curious to find that " vote," so common and thoroughly English a term, was rarely used in its electoral sense outside. Scotland up to the end of the Tudor age, and may conceivably have been acclimatized here by the Stuarts and their Scottish followers; " Vouchsafe " is among the few troublesome words in -this section ; it was, of course, a compound of verb and adjective, which were used separately up to the late fifteenth century and afterwards became conjoined.
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