8 DECEMBER 1883, Page 19

The Swiss Family Robinson, in words of one syllable, and

Robinson Crusoe, on the same principle, by Mary Godolphin (Routledge and Sons), are two volumes which we have, we think, noticed before. We think that to keep, without exception, to monosyllables sometimes positively makes a difficulty ; and we should prefer to see exceptions allowed, and that not sparingly, to a rule which, on the whole, is salutary. Almost the first words which a child utters are words of two syllables.