ABSTRACT
M. Manchon's glossary includes numerous words and phrases that imply and presage and, in some few instances, contain the embryos of the main features and the general tendencies of colloquial speech (of which slang is the raciest branch, the liveliest aspect) of the present day. Nowhere have those features and those tendencies been so pertinently, clearly, and penetratingly set forth as by a Professor of German in a Northern university, the author of a fascinating book published in Germany though written in English: nominally and professedly for the German public, but extremely valuable to students and lovers of English: modestly pretending to be complementary to Le Slang.
