Since the paragraph in regard to Schools for Chinese Children onpage 132 was written， the Council has embarked upon a scheme forthe elementary education of Chinese children in the Settlement， twoschools having been established in different districts of the Settlementunder the direction of a specially qualified Chinese education officer. Incontrast to the Public Schools for Chinese， which are referred to in theChapter on “Education，” these new schools do not include English intheir curriculum， the idea being to give educational facilities to Chinesechildren of the middle and poorer classes. This noteworthy decisionon the part of the Council was taken in the summer of 1928 and it ispleasing to report that work at the schools was actually started in theautumn of the same year.
By oversight， no mention has been made of the remarkable workand influence of one of the originators of the first Public School forChinese—Dr. Timothy Richard.
As General Secretary of the Society for the Diffusion of Christianand General Knowledge founded in 1885 （now the ChristianLiterature Society）， he helped to disseminate among the Chinesemodern ideas， and a knowledge of the progress made in the WesternWorld. His Chinese translation of Mackenzie"s Nineteenth Century wasinstrumental in bringing about the Reform Movement of 1898. Hisname was probably more widely known among the Chinese than thatof any other foreign missionary.
