The new _Philip Quarll_ with all its absurdities was better reading for Children than _The New Robinson Crusoe_ (Campe’s _Robinson der Jüngere_, translated into English from the French in 1788).[93] Crusoe’s ship never carried a heavier cargo than Campe’s tiresome family, who break up the story with their dull colloquies; but the book is a fresh proof that these philosophers had to call in the old masters to enforce their lessons, and could discover no more attractive theme than the old one of voyages and islands.