; 31 + European Education. In section 39 it is reported that at present no recruiting ground exists for competent Chinese teachers of English; and it is urged therefore that Masters of English nationality should be obtained to supplement the deficiency. In my opinion it would be better to give up teaching English and Western knowledge altogether than continue as at present to teach children who, owing to the deficiencies of their teachers, learn little better than nothing. The Bishop of Victoria has stated in his criticism of a portion of this Report that it will be impossible for the Missionary Schools to provide Englishmen as Masters, even on the largely increased Grant recommended by the Committee. The Committee do not share this view, and point to the Roman Catholic Cathedral School to illustrate their contention that, given the proper inducements, suitable English Masters will be forthcoming under the new scheme. The Missionary bodies are, indeed, exceptionally well placed for providing themselves with proficient English Masters possessing a knowledge of Chinese. However that may be, if the views of the Committee are correct, as they appear to me to be, it will be better for the Anglo-Chinese Missionary Schools to retire gradually from the Grant system, in the manner indicated in section 44 of the Report, than to continue in receipt of monies which are a return for work not satisfactorily accomplished.
10. Sections 9 and 11 and other portions of the Report deal with what are styled Vernacular Schools; those, namely, in which the Chinese written language, together with something of 'Western knowledge', is taught to Chinese children