(3) _Advanced._—This class will study the French grammar and literature, and translate into French, under the direction of the Professor, some selections from Irving’s “Sketch Book.” III. TIME OF STUDY. Each pupil will receive twenty-five letters during the term, which will begin the 1st of September and end the 1st of the following July. Persons may enter at any time and back numbers will be sent to them. IV. APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP. Persons desiring to enter the French circle should write to Prof. Lalande, answering the following questions: 1. Give your name in full. 2. Your postoffice address, with county and State. 3. The proficiency of French already attained. V. TERMS. To defray the expenses of correspondence, etc., an annual fee of seven dollars ($7.00) will be required. This amount should be forwarded to Prof. A. Lalande, one-half at the beginning of the term, and the balance after the twelfth exercise. NOTE.—At the expiration of one term all students who understand the course which they have been studying, will be advanced into the one above it; and after having completed _the entire course_ and passed a satisfactory examination, they will receive a diploma signed by the president and the professor. SIX REASONS FOR THE STUDY OF GERMAN. Ever since Carlyle began to study and translate the German literature, the German language has been growing in favor with English speaking people. For years past in the United States, it has held a large place in the curricula of colleges, academies, and even the public schools. Extremists, in some cases, have gone so far as to propose the exclusion of one or both of the old tongues and the substitution of German. Whilst such practice would be extreme, it is but just to say that all attention and study thus far have been worthily bestowed. The following are a few of the many valid reasons for the study of German: 1. This language possesses, in an unusual degree, those qualities which give discipline to the mind. One of the greatest linguists and comparative philologists of the age, has ranked it not inferior, but superior to the Greek in this regard. The German is an inflected language like the Latin. This gives exercise to memory, and demands the utmost exactitude in construction. At the same time it has synthetic power, a capacity of word-building unsurpassed by any other language; so that the nicest shades of meaning can be expressed, thus giving the mind an exercise of the highest disciplinary character.