Wreface.

WRN for nearly two centuries has been the favourite
of young and old, and which is now ranked, by

common consent, among the classic master-

 

pieces of English literature.

All then that remains for the Editor to do, is to justify
the appearance of this new edition by pointing out in
what respects it differs from its predecessors.

Ist,—It has been carefully printed from the first
edition; though it has not been thought advisable to adopt
the pedantic fashion of reproducing the original ortho-
graphy. We might as well use the old spelling in our
“ Authorized Version of the Bible ;” and we are unable to
see how it can interest any but a very limited class of
students. For the same reason, we have by no means
literally followed the original punctuation, which, perhaps,
was not De Foe’s, but his printers’. In all other respects

the present edition is a faithful transcript of the “ Robinson