CURRENT LITERATURE.

Harpers have in press Mahaffy's "Old Greek Education."

The Canadian publishers are grumbling over their copyright laws.

The valuable Library Journal is declared to be at last self-supporting by its editors.

The life of John Stuart Mill, by Alexander Bain, will be published in America by H. Holt & Co.

Oscar Wilde's Poems are advertised for sale by Roberts Bros., "in a neat aesthetic binding;" they also publish "School Sermons," preached at Adams Academy by Wm. Everett.

The Peabody Library, Baltimore, contains 73,000 volumes; it was founded in 1861. It is said that "Professors at Harvard, Yale, Brown, Virginia and Michigan universities' are employed in the task of giving advice as to the selection of all books bought by this library.

A recent criticism on Goldsmith says of his writings : "They will long attract us by their urbanity and intellectual hospitality - traits that were none too freqment among the contemporaries of Goldsmith, nor for that matter, even among the contemporaries of Carlyle, Freeman and Ruskin.

A work on "Metaphysics," by Prof. B. P. Blowne of Boston University, has been published by the Harpers, for which they make the most extravagant claims. For instance, "This is the most important contribution to metaphysical science that has been made since Kant's work on 'Pure Reason.' It is, in fact, the prolegomena to all future systems in a more important sense than Kant's work was. Indeed, the first principles of metaphysics are so apparent from a consideration of this work that they may be considered as finally established." Professor Blowne "thrusts aside the evolution theory," and herein will doubtless please many (e. g. Dr. McCosh); but the rest certainly sounds like the merest pretension.