6 FEBRUARY 1864, Page 23

The Swiss Family Robinson. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—Even- ings at

Home. (Longman and Co.)—Two volumes of the " Shilling Entertaining Library," edited by Mr. J. S. Laurie. They are of a size to enter the pocket, well printed, and on fairly good paper, and the ide a of reprinting the old favourite. of all children in this way is good ; but we altogether abominate the system of tampering with the received texts. The Swiss Family Robinson has actually been made scientifically accurate. The elephant and the kangaroo, the buffalo and the jackal could not, forsooth, exist together in one district ; and so half of the dear old tale disappears. What do children care about such pedantry as this ?