6 JULY 1912, Page 34

A New English Dictionary : Sleep — Sniggle. By W. A. Craigie.

(Oxford University Press. 5s.)—This new section of the ninth volume of the Oxford English Dictionary contains altogether 3,203 words, as compared with 282 words in the same section of Johnson's Dictionary. The commonest word dealt with in the section is probably "small," which occupies tea columns of the dictionary. Among the rare words we notice "slouk," an idle fellow; " slench," to slink; " snat-nosed," snub. An illustration of the last says that "all mooris and men of Ynde be snatte-nosed : as be gootis, apis, and beeys."