Many of our friends, planning for their summer trips just now, are wondering, no doubt, what good things Chautauqua will have to offer this season. For their sakes we give just a glimpse of what is being prepared for the Chautauqua School of Languages and Chautauqua Teachers’ Retreat. With the July number of The Chautauquan, we shall forward to each of our subscribers a copy of the Advance Number of the Assembly Herald, which will contain full information about Chautauqua for 1884.

The Chautauqua School of Languages will open on Saturday, July 12th, and continue for six weeks. It is the aim of the school to illustrate the best methods of teaching languages and to furnish instruction in languages for students.

The Teachers’ Retreat will open Saturday, July 12th, and continue three weeks. It is the aim of the Retreat to benefit secular teachers by combining with the recreative delights of the summer vacation, the stimulating and quickening influence of the summer school.

Following are the departments of the C. S. L. for 1884:

1. German. Prof. J. H. Worman, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. Three classes: Beginners, Middle and Advanced.

2. French. Prof. A. Lalande, Louisville, Ky. Three classes: Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced.

3. Spanish. Prof. J. H. Worman, Ph.D., Nashville, Tenn. Beginners class only.

4. Greek. Henry Lummis, A.M., Stoneham, Mass. Three classes: Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced.

5. Latin. E. S. Shumway, A.M., Rutger’s College, New Brunswick, N. J. Five classes: Teachers’ Method class, College class, Preparatory, Beginners, Circles and Colloquia.

6. English Language and Literature. W. D. MacClintock, 3 Winthrop Place, New York City. Anglo-Saxon, Shakspere and Chaucer.

7. The Chautauqua School of Hebrew. William R. Harper, Ph.D., Morgan Park, near Chicago, Ill. Four classes: Elementary, Intermediate, Progressive and Exegetical. Four weeks—July 21st, August 16th.

8. New Testament Greek. Rev. A. A. Wright, Boston, Mass. Two divisions: 1. Grammatical; 2. Lexicographical and Exegetical. Four weeks—July 25th, August 22nd.

The rate of admission to all the exercises of the C. S. L. and C. T. R. for the session of six weeks will be $12.00. Arrangements have been made for special classes in several branches. We give a list of these classes and their cost:

Elocution, fifteen lessons, $5.00; Elocution, ten lessons, $4.00; Elocution, five lessons, $3.00; Elocution, private, per hour, $3.00. Clay Modeling, per hour, $0.40. Drawing, fifteen lessons, $5.00; Drawing, ten lessons, $4.00; Drawing, five lessons, $3.00. Phonography, twenty lessons, $10.00. Voice culture, ten lessons, $10.00. Harmony, ten lessons, $10.00. Music in day school eight lessons free to C. S. L. and C. T. R. Mineralogy and Lithology, ten lessons, $2.00. Botany, ten lessons, $2.00.

The rate of admission to the grounds will be, in July, twenty-five cents a day; in August, forty cents a day. A week ticket in July, $1.00; a week ticket in August, $2.00. Tickets for the entire term in July, $2.00; tickets for the August Assembly meetings, $3.00. An arrangement is made by which full course tickets may be secured for July and August for $4.00.

It is incredible how important it is that the corporeal frame should be kept under the influence of constant, continuous, and unbroken order, and free from the impressions of vicissitude, which always more or less derange the corporeal functions. After all, it is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.—Von Humboldt.