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A Complete Edition of the philosophical works of J. F. Herbart is
announced for publication by Voss, of Leipzig. It will be completed in
twelve volumes, 8vo., edited by Prof. Hartenstein, of Leipzig, and will
be finished in about two years.

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MR. BAIRD, of Philadelphia, has in press a richly illustrated edition of
Gray's Poems.

From the London Times.

THE HISTORY OF GREECE

BY GEORGE GROTE.

Mr. Grote's history has yet arrived only at the close of the fourth
century B.C., and the fall of the Thirty Tyrants. Two of the six
compartments in which he proposes, to use his own quaint phrase, "to
exhaust the free life of collective Hellas," still remain to be
accomplished. But the history of Greece is written. Stirring events and
great names are still to come; the romantic enterprise of Cyrus and the
retreat of the Ten Thousand, the elective trust of Thebes, and the
chivalrous glories of her one great man. Demosthenes has yet to prove
how vain is the divinest eloquence when poured to degenerate hearts.
Agis and Cleomenes have yet to exhibit the spectacle, ever fraught with
melancholy interest, of noble natures out of harmony with the present,
and spending their energies in the vain attempt to turn back the stream
of time and call again into existence the feelings and the institutions
of an irrevocable past. The monarchy of Philip is yet due to fate.
Macedon is still to Greece what Russia, before Peter the Great, was to
Europe--a half-unknown and barbarous land, full of latent energy and
power, and waiting for the rise of a master mind to discern its embryo
greatness and turn its peasants into the unconquerable phalanx.
Alexander must arise to carry forth with his victorious arms the seeds
of Greek civilization over the Eastern world. Aristotle must arise to
gather up in one boundless mind the vast results of Greek philosophy,
and found an empire vaster and more enduring than that of his great
pupil in the subjugated intellect of man. But the history of Greece is
finished. Athens and Sparta, the two great antagonistic types of Greek
society, politics, and education, have attained their full development,
passed their allotted hour of trial, and touched upon their doom. The
shades of night are gathering on the bright day of Hellas. The momentous
work of that wonderful people is accomplished; the interest of the great
intellectual and moral contest has c