3 JANUARY 1920, Page 29

Casseirs New English Dictionary. Edited by E. A. Baker. (Cassell.

6s. net.)—This is a compact and useful dictionary, which is said to contain a hundred and twenty thousand words and phrases. It is well printed, and the derivations and definitions, so far as we have tested them, are satisfactory. A supplement contains many new words and war-words intro. duced since the book was first put into type in 1914. The war vocabulary is not, of course, completely represented, but we find here the familiar " Blighty," " cushy," " Cuthbert," " conchy," the very hard-worked " camouflage," " scrounge," " scrimshank," " whippet " (of a tank), and other terms that were unknown to dictionary-makers five years ago.