李慈铭是晚清著名的学者,他的小说论述散见于《越缦堂日记》中,在小说思想上以“补史观”为主导,肯定了小说寓劝戒、广见闻、资考证、娱情悦性等方面的作用,对唐人小说文采笔法给予了较高的评价,对通俗小说的不同题材表现出相异的感情倾向,并进行了诸如小说著者、成书年代等具体问题的考证。李慈铭是晚清上层文人的典型代表,其小说思想与当时的学术风气密切相关,他的小说思想研究对我们了解晚清上层文人的小说思想具有重要的意义。 Li Chi-ming is a famous scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. His novels are scattered in the diary of Yue Jiantang, which is dominated by the notion of Such as novel writers, book age and other specific issues of the textual research. Li Ciming is the typical representative of the late literati upper literati. His novels thought is closely related to the academic atmosphere at that time. His research on the novel thought is of great significance for us to understand the novel thought of the upper literati in the late Qing Dynasty.