Literary Notes

Prof. W. G. Summer is to contribute to "The Popular Science Monthly," as the opening article of the July nutnber, a discussion of the question, " What is Civil Liberty?" in which he reviews the ideas of liberty that have prevailed, ind the relations that rights and duties liave borne to each other, in the past, and points out the tendencies that :hreaten civil liberty in the present. William Blaikie, author of'Howto aet Strong, and How to Stay So," and 'Sound Bodies for our Boys and Girls," will write, in Harper's Magazine for July, upon the question " Is American Staaiina Declining ? " and will make a lumber of practical suggestions for reforming our system of education in the direction of pysical training. Rev. Atticus G. Haygood, D. D..LL. D., author of "Our Brother in Black," and other works, and general agent of he John F. Slater Fund for the educaron of the negro, will contribute to Iarper's Magazine for July a paper on 'The South and the School Problem," n which he outlines the present situation. The Lincoln History in the July Cen:ury will contain chapters on " Lincoln Renominated," "The Wade-Davis Manifestó," and " Horace Greeley's Peace Mission." Major John Hay, one of the authors of this history, was the medium of communication between Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Greeley at the time of the remarkable conference of Mr. Greeley with the pretended Confedérate peacecommissioners at Niágara. Much of the correspondence relative to the matter now first sees the light in the pages of the July Century. A Brief History of Greek Philosophy. By B. C. Burt, M. A., formerly Fellow and Fellow by Courtesy in the Johns Hopkins University. This nork gives a concise but comprehensiveaccount of Greek philosophy on its natiye soil and n Rome. It is critical and interpretative, as well as purely historica], its paragraphs of critieisin and interpretative, however, being, as a rule, distinct from those devoted to biography and exposition. The wants of the reader or student who desires to coinprehend, rather than merely to inform himself, have particularly been in the mind of the author, whose aim has been to let the subject unfold itself, as far as possible. The subject-matter s distinctly outlined throughout the volume by paragraph headings. The volume contains a full topical table of contents, a brief bibliography of the subjects it treats, and numerous foot-notes embracing references to original authorities and assisting the student towards a real contact with the Greek thinkers themselves. It filis admirably, a wantwhich has long been feit,- of a brief, clear, connected and suggestive guide to the history of Greek philosophy. Ginn & Company, publishers