BOOKS OF REFERENCE.—A New English Dictionary.
Tombal—Trahysh. Press.
By Sir James A. H. Murray. (Oxford University Press. 5s.)—The latest section of the great Oxford dictionary contains altogether three thousand two hundred and ninety-five words. Both the first and last words of the section, by the way, will at first sight seem incomprehensible to the average reader. The first, " tombal," turns out, however, to be easily explicable. It is not, as might be expected, a word of Fiji origin, but hails from the columns of the Daily News, where it made its only recorded appearance in the year 1900. It means simply "of or pertaining to a tomb." On the other hand, " Trahysh" is a genuinely obscure word, being a variant of the obsolete verb " Traise," "to betray." —Dictionary of National Biography. Second Supplement : Index and Epitome. Edited by Sir Sidney Lee. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This volume bears the same relation to the second Supplement to the Dictionary as did the Epitome published in 1903 to the whole work. It consists of an abridgment of the three volumes of the Supplement, each memoir being represented on an average by one-twelfth of the number of words in the full text.—We have also received : University College of North Wales : Calendar for the Session 1913-14. (J. E. Cornish, Ltd., St. Ann's Square, Manchester.)
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