Let the pupils find the portion of the heavens visible at 6 p.m. to-day, and indicate, both in the heavens and with respect to our landscape, the positions of Jupiter and Saturn. Also show how Mars may be looked for in the south, too, about 6 o’clock in the morning. _Step 5._—To enlarge on Point (_e_), show a diagram of the path of Venus among the constellations in 1868 (Lockyer’s _Elementary Lessons in Astronomy_, p. 183), and get the pupils to notice how large a distance she travelled in one month, in order to induce them to make personal observations. Prepare them to see the planets sometimes move backwards and sometimes remain stationary. Explain this by letting one of the girls move round the table, while the other watches how, with respect to her background, she appears to move first from left to right, then to remain stationary, then to move from right to left, and again to remain stationary. The moving girl, observing the other with respect to her background, notices the same phenomena. Then show the diagram in Lockyer, which illustrates these facts, p. 178, and also another in Reid’s _Elements of Astronomy_, p. 137, which shows the apparent motion of one planet viewed from another in motion. A PICTURE TALK. Group: Art. Class III. Age: 13. Time: 25 minutes. OBJECTS. 1. To give the girls some idea of composition, based on the work of the artist Jean François Millet. 2. To inspire them with a desire to study the works of other artists, with a similar object in view. 3. To help them with their original illustrations, by giving them ideas, carried out in Millet’s work, as to simplicity of treatment, breadth of tone, and use of lines. MATERIALS NEEDED. See that the girls are provided with paint-boxes, brushes, water, pencils, rulers, india-rubber, and paper. Photographs of some of Millet’s pictures. A picture-book by R. Caldecott. LESSON. _Step 1._—Introduce the subject by talking with the children about their original illustrations. Tell them how our great artists have drawn ideas and inspiration from the work of other artists; have studied their pictures, copied them, and tried to get at the spirit of them. Tell them that to-day we are going to study some of the pictures of the great French artist, Millet, some of whose works Mr Yates has drawn for us on the walls of our Millet Room, considering them to be models of true art. _Step 2._—Tell the children a little about the life of Millet (giving them one or two pictures to look at meanwhile); give only a brief sketch, so that they will feel that he is not a stranger to them. Just talk to them a little about his early childhood, how he worked in the fields; how he had two great books—the Book of Nature and the Bible, from which he drew much inspiration; how later on he went to Paris and studied the pictures of great artists, Michael Angelo among them.