"If, then, there is to be separation and opposition between humane letters on the one hand, and the natural sciences on the other," says Mr. Matthew Arnold, in an article just published in the Manhattan magazine, "the great mankind, all who have not exceptional and overpowering aptitudes for the study of nature, would do well, I cannot but think, to choose to be educated in humane letters rather than in the natural sciences. Letters will call out their being at more points, will make them live more." These words of the great apostle of sweetness and light come to us with peculiar force today, just as Mr. Arnold has left this country for England, and just now when we are in the very heat of the discussion of the "classics vs. sciences." It was to be expected that a man of Mr. Matthew Arnold's peculiar views,-if we may call them such,-would put himself strongly in favor of the classical education, and he had done so. And further, he appears to be very confident, relying on the "instinct for beauty" in all men, which is served best by Greek literature, that the study of Greek, becoming more rational in its methods, will go on in a constantly increasing degree. "Women will again study Greek as Lady Jane Grey did. I believe that in that chain of fords with which the fair host of the amazons is engirding the English universities, I find that in the happy families of your mixed American universities out West, they are studying it already." This is certainly a sanguine view. Hitherto Greek has seemed to be the bane of the female race, and it is certainly new to believe that out of all this struggle between Greek and science will come any such complete and sweeping victory as this. Certainly there is bound to be a reaction from the onslaughts which the classics have received of late, though whether it will result so favorably for the classicists as this view would indicate is in truth an open question. But one thing seems certain, that out of all this hue and cry for "practical education" will come a movement for "the higher education." It may be that some such exaltation of Greek will be attendant on it, or it may not. Time will show.