EXPLANATION.-The Constitution of the Ohio Teachers' Association makes it the duty of the Executive Committee to "fix the time and place for holding all regular meetings of the Association." The Committee after an extensive correspondence with the leading teachers of the State decided to hold the regular meeting for 1880 at Chautauqua Lake, N. Y., July 7, 8, 9. They were led to this decision by the fact that the teachers of the State after holding seven consecutive meetings at Put-in-Bay have become averse to meeting in the hot month of July in a large city, and also from the fact that lower railway and hotel rates could be secured for a meeting at Chautauqua Lake than have ever been secured for any previous meeting in Ohio. The National Educational Association will meet at Chautauqua, July 13, 14, 15, 16. The teachers attending the State Association who desire also to attend that meeting, (and it is hoped for the credit of the State there will be many such) can do so without any additional expense for railway fare. Chautauqua Lake is fast becoming a place of national resort, and many Ohio teachers desire to visit it, especially, as such a visit. can be made in connection with the meeting of the Association at so little expense.

HOTEL RATES.-The Lake-View House and the Kent House, $1.50 a day. These hotels are at Lakewood on the southern shore of the Lake, on the New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Railway (formerly called the Atlantic and Great Western), five miles west of Jamestown. Rooms at the Lake-View House can be secured by addressing C. L. STOUGH, Warren, Ohio, and at the Kent House by addressing F. H. FRISBEE, Lakewood, Chautauqua Co., N. Y.

PLACES OF MEETING.-The Superintendents' Section will hold its meeting Wednesday, July 7, at the Lake-View House. The General Association will meet on Thursday and Friday at Chautauqua (Fair Point) on the grounds of the Chautauqua-Lake Sunday-School Assembly.

STEAMBOAT RATES.-Teachers will be taken from Lakewood to Chautauqua and return at 25 cents for the round trip.

RAILWAY RATES.-The New-York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Railway, which crosses Ohio from the northeast to the southwest, has generously consented to convey teachers of Ohio from any point on the road to Chautauqua Lake and return at the rate of one cent a mile, each way, and at a still lower special rate from Cincinnati, Hamilton, Dayton, Springfield, Urbana, and Marion. Tickets will not be good for return unless accompanied by a ticket of membership in the Association for 1880. It is expected that favorable rates will also be secured on other railways.

SPECIAL NOTICE.-In order to secure these rates teachers will have to procure from different members of the Executive Committee orders on ticket agents to sell tickets at the reduced rates. Application for these orders must be made as follows:

From the counties of Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Darke, Fayette, Greene, Hamilton, Montgomery, Preble, and Warren, to M. S. TURRILL, Cincinnati (Cumminsville), Ohio.

From the counties of Allen, Van Wert, Mercer, Auglaize, Shelby, Putnam, Hancock, Hardin, Logan, Marion, Champaign, Clark, Miami, Union, Wyandot, and Crawford, to GEO. W. WALKER, Lima, Ohio.

From the counties of Sandusky, Erie, Williams, Fulton, Henry, Defiance, Wood, Ottawa, Lucas, Seneca, and Paulding, to W. W. Ross, Fremont, Ohio.

From the counties of Athens, Meigs, Washington, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Muskingum, Guernsey, Licking, Madison, and Franklin, to J. M. GOODSPEED, Athens, Ohio.

From the counties of Brown, Highland, Adams, Ross, Pike, Scioto, Lawrence, Gallia, Vinton, Hocking, Jackson, Pickaway, Fairfield, and Perry, to M. S. CAMPBELL, Youngstown, Ohio.

From the counties of Mahoning, Carroll, Jefferson, Columbiana, Belmont, Harrison, Tuscarawas, Stark, Wayne, Holmes, Knox, Delaware, and Coshocton, to REUBEN MCMILLAN, Youngstown, Ohio.

From the counties of Ashtabula, Ashland, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Huron, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Morrow, Portage, Richland, Summit, and Trumbull, to E. F. MOULTON, Warren, Ohio.

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.

-In our advertising pages will be found an advertisement of Lippincott's Gazetteer. This magnificent work of 2478 pages deserves more than the usual book notice found in the list of book notices. Lippincott's Gazetteer has for a quarter of a century been a standard work in America, indeed there has been no other gazetteer issued in that time that deserves to be considered as its rival. The first edition was issued in 1855, and a revised edition containing 10,000 new notices was issued in 1866. These notices were inserted as an appendix, thus necessitating a double reference. In the new edition of 1880, they are all inserted in their proper places. This edition has been thoroughly revised, rewritten, and greatly enlarged. The publishers have spent on its preparation $50,000, their desire being to continue the work as the great standard gazetteer for English-speaking people. The progress of geographical discovery and the establishment or founding of new towns make the revision of gazetteers a necessity. A comparison of the edition of this gazetteer with that of 1866 shows the progress of events in the last fourteen years. As an illustration we refer to what is said of the Nile and the Congo in the two editions. In addition to changes there will be found numerous notices of towns and cities that fourteen years ago had no existence. In the edition of 1866, Leetonia, Ocean Grove, Manitoba (province), Leadville, Helena (Montana), etc., were not mentioned. They all receive proper notice in the edition of 1880. In this edition also the changes made in the political map of Europe by the Franco-Prussian war of 1870–2 and the Eastern war of 1877-8 are duly noted. See notices of France, Turkey, etc. It should be observed that the difference in the number of pages of the edition of 1866 and that of 1880, namely 147, does not show the amount of new matter, for the latter begins with the letter A on p. 9 (properly 7), and the former with page 37 (numbered improperly p. 25). Furthermore many entries of places that no longer have an existence have given place for new matter. It may be said of Lippincott's Gazetteer that in reference to pronunciation it stands confessedly ahead of any Gazetteer published in the English language, and most probably ahead of any published in any language. We may mention also among other distinguishing characteristics the attention given to the orthography of geographical names, their ancient forms, geographical adjectives, and appellations of the inhabitants of different countries. We have no hesitation in saying that a copy of Lippincott's Gazetteer should be in every school-room in the land, and in every teacher's library. Teachers should call the attention of Boards of Education to the new work and urge its purchase. Those who have the old edition will still have use for it on account of the scholarly preface and introduction which it contains, these being omitted in the edition of 1880.

-WE give this month a map of Chautauqua Lake by which teachers in advance can get a definite idea of its situation and the relative position of the points of interest. We also give two of the many delightful views with which the Lake abounds. In our advertising pages will be found a cut of the Lake-View House at Lakewood, at which the meeting of the Superintendents' Section is to be held the first day. The hotels at Lakewood were selected as giving the best opportunity for Ohio teachers to be close together and renew the remembered pleasures of Put-in-Bay.

-A FEW weeks ago we visited Chautauqua Lake with Reuben McMillan, President of the Ohio Teachers' Association, E. F. Moulton, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Warren Packard of Warren, President of the Ashtabula and Youngstown Railway, and proprietor of the Lake-View House at Lakewood. We left the N. Y., P., and O. train at Jamestown and went on board a little steamer that plies between Jamestown and Mayville. After steaming for two or three miles along the narrow outlet of the Lake we emerged into the Lake opposite the Fluvanna House. We left Mr. Packard at the Lakewood dock, opposite Griffith Point, he intending to overlook matters at his hotel, the LakeView House. Steaming up the Lake to the northwest we left Mr. McMillan at Bemus Point, he wishing to see there the manager of the transportation line of steamers on the lake, to secure favorable rates for the trip excursions. Passing through the Narrows we continued our journey to Fairpoint where we landed. We proceeded to the Palace Hotel. conducted by E. L. Alling. A walk round the grounds gave us an idea of the animated appearance that must be presented in August yearly when ten or twelve thousand persons throng the grounds filling the three hundred cottages and tents, the overplus resorting to other hotels along the lake for lodgings. Many of the cottages are permanent structures, others are mere tents. The builders were at work on the first wing of what is intended to be a part of the permanent Palace Hotel. This wing is to be finished by July 1. In the evening we were rejoined by Mr. McMillan who had been successful in his mission, after which he had secured a buggy at Bemus Point, was ferried across the Narrows, and was brought a distance of seven miles to Fairpoint on the west side of the Lake. In the evening we were visited by Mr. A. K. Warren, Esq., who resides at Mayville, three miles above Fairpoint at the head of the Lake. He is secretary of the Assembly Association and Superintendent of the grounds at Fairpoint. He is the man that is posted in reference to every thing that pertains to Fairpoint. His coming had been announced by telephone, he having telephonic communication between Fairpoint and his places of business at Mayville. In the morning early he drove down to Fairpoint from Mayville, breakfasted with us at the Palace Hotel and then took us in his private boat to Mayville and thence to Chautauqa Point to visit the Baptist Hotel which has been greatly enlarged. Here we changed over to the regular boat from Mayville to Jamestown, the same boat on which we went up the Lake on the day before. At Lakewood we got off, visited the Kent Honse and Lake-View House, taking dinner at the latter, after which we proceeded to Lakewood station and boarded the N. Y., P., and Ohio train for home, having had a pleasant visit and having been treated with the greatest of courtesy by all with whom we came in contact.

-TEACHERS must remember that the headquarters of the Ohio Teachers' Association are fixed at Lakewood, and that to reach that point without two or three changes of cars and prospective delays and boat riding, it will be necessary to go by the N. Y., P., and O. Railway. In our next number we expect to publish the time-table of the road and give details as to the best way to go.

-CHAUTAUQUA this year will be the scene of much literary and religious activity. The Ohio Teachers' Association will meet there July 8, 9. July 8 the Chautauqua School of Languages will also begin its second annual session, and will continue, we suppose, five or six weeks. The instructors announced are T. T. Timayenis (Greek), R. S. Holmes (Latin), J. H. Worman (German), A. Lalande (French), A. S. Cook (Anglo

BEMUS POINT, and the " NARROWS," viewed from Long Point,