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110 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.buildings and high salaried instructors, but they aregiving more thorough instruction, have better discipline, and are safer places for young men than are theschools which do not have the advantage of Christianpreceptors.We have a list of 45 of these schools with a totalattendance of 1,224. No doubt a full report wouldgive a larger number.DAY-SCHOOLS.Before closing we would also like to mention thelarge number of day-schools where Chinese youthreceive instruction in Chinese books, arithmetic, geography, and Christian literature, and where Christianmen and women work faithfully to teach them theway of life and duty. Many thousands have learnedin these day-schools, among other things, a Christianvocabulary, which will do much to open their mindsand to enable them to understand those importanttruths which the untaught non-Christian can not comprehend when he first hears them. In nearly everymission station one or more of these day-schools maybe found, and they are doing a great work of enlightenment in China.We have not been able to obtain complete andreliable statistics, but we estimate the number of dayschoolsin the seven provinces of Central and EastCentral China at over 500 and the number in attendanceat more than 12,000 pupils, of whom probably some9,000 are boys.SUMMARY.If to the total number in universities, colleges,high-schools, and boarding-schools (5,517) we add the9,000 boys in the day-schools, we have a total of 14,517boys and young men who receive daily instruction underChristian influences and by Christian teachers, and