Charles’ heroic resolution. One learns something of the dream he renounced in _Dream Children_. His work at the India House was uninteresting, but such as left him leisure for intellectual pursuits. This distribution of occupation was a means of conserving his mental balance. His literary work was all done in the evening: ‘Candle Light’ in _Popular Fallacies_. The girls will then read Talfourd’s estimate of Lamb. Letters to Robert Lloyd show Lamb’s persistent cheerfulness. This cheerful tone is also noticeable in many of his essays: _Mrs Battle_, _All Fools’ Day_, _My Relations_ (portrait of John Lamb), _Mackery End_ (portrait of Mary Lamb), _Poor Relations_, and _Captain Jackson_. C. Lamb died 1834. _Step 3._—Summarise by questions. _Subject: English Grammar._ Group: Language. Class II. Average age: 10. Time: 20 minutes. OBJECTS. 1. To increase the children’s power of reasoning and attention. 2. To increase their knowledge of English Grammar. 3. To introduce a new part of speech—preposition. LESSON. _Step 1._—Draw from the children the names of the two kinds of verbs and the difference between them, by putting up sentences on the board. Thus in the sentence ‘Father slept,’ ‘slept,’ as they know, is intransitive; therefore he could not ‘slept’ anything, as ‘slept’ cannot have an object. _Step 2._—Put on the board the sentence ‘Mary went,’ and ask the children to try and make it more complete by adding an object. ‘Mary went school’ would not be sense, but ‘Mary went _to_ school’ would. Ask for other phrases saying where Mary went, as, _for_ a walk, _into_ the town, _with_ mother, _on_ her bicycle, _by_ train, etc. _Step 3._—Tell the children that these little words, on, in, by, for, with, etc., belong to a class of words which are very much used with intransitive verbs; they have not much meaning when used alone, yet in a sentence they cannot stand without an object. You cannot say ‘Mary went in,’ without saying what she went in. _Step 4._—Introduce the word ‘preposition,’ giving its derivation. Because these little words always take objects after them, and because their place is before the object, they are called prepositions, ‘pre’ being the Latin word for ‘before,’ and ‘position’ another word for ‘place.’ _Step 5._—Write on the board the definition:—‘A preposition always has an object after it.’ _Step 6._—Let the children work through the following exercises:— (1) Put three objects after each of the following prepositions:—in, on, over, by, with, and from. (2) Put three prepositions and their objects after the following:—Mary plays, Mother sits, John runs. (3) Supply three prepositions in each of the following sentences:—The book is —— the table. The chair is —— the door. I stood —— the window. (4) Supply three subjects and verbs to each of the following prepositions and objects:— —— —— in the garden, —— —— on the floor, —— —— by the fire.