6 JANUARY 1923, Page 34

A MODERN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. (Macmillan. 4s. 6d.

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This dictionary, wholly " free from all objectionable words and meanings," will, in every way, meet the requirements of Secondary and Elementary Schools. Modem words and phrases and most of the foreign words that occur in our language are given. We must call attention to the very clear print and to the one illustration in the book. The compiler was evidently chary of entrusting his definition of a hairpin to the average boy, so he has illustrated it with a curious sort of arch such as rambler-roses are trained on, and this we fear will make matters only more complicated.