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" His tale is far too diffuse, too full of moralizing and with too little variety. He was very ignorant of the Botany and Zoology of the tropics, and when his "
Rebilius Cruso; Robinson Crusoe in Latin ... - Page iv
by Francis William Newman, Daniel Defoe - 1884 - 108 pages
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Book-lore: A Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature, Volume 1

Bibliography - 1885 - 248 pages
...classics of the same length. Professor Newman's experience as a translator of Defoe is worth quoting:—" His tale is far too diffuse, too full of moralizing,...the botany and zoology of the Tropics, and when his story is faithfully abridged, its impossibilities become too glaring. The Arabic Robinson Crusoe, published...
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