5 JULY 1913, Page 37

A New English. Dictionary : Several—Shaster. By Henry Bradley. (Oxford

University Press. 2s. 61.)—The new section of the Oxford Dictionary contains 1,414 words, as compared with 110 in the same portion of Dr. Johnson's. The words contained in it fall, etymologically, into two parts. The first few pages, from "several" to " sg,raffito," consist almost entirely of words of Latin origin; while the rest of the section, namely, the words beginning with SH, is over- whelmingly Teutonic. Among the few exceptions are some Oriental words, of which " Shah " and " Shampoo " are the only ones in common use. Only one more section remains for the completion of the eighth volume of the work, and this will be issued next April.