The assignee’s sale of the stock of imported books and fine art publications of Mr. J. W. Bouton, of New York, is now advertised. It is a real shock to know that this rare collection must be sacrificed. For years his rooms have been a resort for book lovers, and a liberal education to the loiterers about his counters. Perhaps there is no collection in America, outside of the libraries, the sale of which would cause such general regret. C. L. S. C. NOTES ON REQUIRED READINGS FOR FEBRUARY. COLLEGE GREEK COURSE IN ENGLISH. Articles on Plato may be found in the following works: Plato’s “Republic,” De Quincey; “Plato,” Encyclopædia Britannica; Smith’s “Greek and Roman Biography,” at the beginning of the various editions of his works; Mahaffey’s “Classical Greek Literature;” Müller’s “Literature of Ancient Greece;” “Against the Atheists,” _Christian Examiner_, vol. xl, p. 108; “Life of Plato,” _Methodist Quarterly_, vol. xx, p. 368; “On the Immortality of the Soul,” _Christian Repository_, vol. xxii, p. 507; “Platonism,” _Baptist Quarterly_, vol. i, p. 22; “Ethical Philosophy,” _American Church Repository_, vol. xxii, p. 175. P. 86.—“Cicero,” etc. The “De Republica” was a dialogue on what is the best form of the state; the “City of God” treats of the body of Christians in distinction from the City of the World, or those out of the church. St. Augustine wrote this book after the sack of Rome by Alaric to answer the assertion that the destruction of the country was a punishment for the desertion of the pagan deities; “Utopia” is the story of an imaginary land supposed to have been discovered by a companion of Amerigo Vespucci, where the laws were perfect; the “New Atlantis” was an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, where Bacon represents himself to have been shipwrecked, and where he found societies for cultivating art and the sciences. P. 96.—“Dæmon.” “This demon or genius of Socrates, which was not personified by himself, was regarded by Plutarch as an intermediate being between gods and men, by the fathers of the church as an evil spirit, by Le Clerc as one of the fallen angels, by Ficino and Dacier as a good angel, and by later writers as a personification of conscience or practical instinct, or individual tact.” P. 98.—“Origen.” (185?-254?) This eminent writer of the early church fathers made an effort to reconcile Platonism with Christianity, and in his commentaries on the Scriptures used the allegorical method almost entirely. “The literal sense is always secondary; and the critic never fails where it is possible to find in the simplest fact or the plainest exhortation some hidden meaning.” P. 99.—“Lemma.” When in demonstrating a proposition a second proposition is introduced and assumed as true, or demonstrated for immediate use, it is called a _lemma_.