AIREDALE COLLEGE, BRADFORD, ENG.,} 26 February, 1883.} _My Dear Sir_—Your letter just received. I deeply regret that the postponement of my lectures should so distress and inconvenience you, but am pleased to find that you are so kind as to be willing to comply with my request. It will be in every respect better and more suitable for me to come in the summer of 1884, and this I at once and frankly undertake to do. Please then to arrange according to letter of the 13th ult., the postponement, and believe me, Yours, very sincerely, A. M. FAIRBAIRN. THE CHAUTAUQUA SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES. The following excellent plan for the study of French at home has been proposed by Prof. Lalande. It meets with the hearty approval of Dr. Vincent, and will, we trust, find favor with many. The prospectus speaks for itself. CHAUTAUQUA SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES. FRENCH CIRCLE. _President_: J. H. VINCENT, Superintendent of Instruction C. L. S. C. _Director_: A. LALANDE, Professor of French at the Chautauqua School of Languages. PROSPECTUS. I. AIM. This new organization aims to assist students of the French language to overcome the idiomatic and other difficulties of interpretation, as well as to acquire general facility in reading and writing French. To this end it is intended to organize a French circle for regular and systematic home study, to be directed through the mail by Prof. A. Lalande. Every member of the French circle will receive certain exercises, comprising a definite amount of reading, translating, and idiomatic and grammatic expounding, to be performed by the members and mailed to the Professor. These exercises will be corrected by Prof. Lalande and returned to the student with notes and suggestions adapted to his individual needs. This series of graduated exercises will carry the student over all important difficulties in the language, and the required readings, etc., will insure to the faithful student such attainments in the French language as will fit him to profit fully thereafter by the most advanced instruction in class, or under a living teacher. II. COURSE OF STUDY. The course of study prescribed by the French circle will be divided into the following arrangement of classes: First—Primary. Second—Intermediate. Third—Advanced. (1) _Primary._—In this department the students will have to translate into French the exercises contained in Fasquelle’s French course, and will also answer in French the easy questions sent to them by the Professor. (2) _Intermediate._—Pupils will be required to translate into French exercises prepared by the Professor, and study under his direction “_Causeries avec mes élèves_,” by L. Sauveur, and Noël & Chapsal’s French grammar.