五十多年前,我在清华大学西洋文学系念书。我那时是二十岁上下。孟实先生是北京大学的教授,在清华大学兼课,年龄大概三十四五岁吧。他只教一门文艺心理学,实际上就是美学。这是一门选修课。我选了这一门课,认真听了一年。当时我就感到,这一门课非同凡响,是我最满意的一门课,比那些英、美、法、德等国来的外籍教授所开的课好到不能比的程度。朱先生不是那种口若悬河的人,他的口才并不好,讲一口带安徽味的蓝青官话,听起来并不“美”。看来他不是一个演说家,讲课从来不看学生,两只眼向上翻,看的好像是天花板上或者窗户上的某一块地方。然而却没有废话,每一句话都清清楚楚。他介绍西方各国流行的文艺理论,有 More than 50 years ago, I studied at the Western Literature Department of Tsinghua University. I was 20 when I was up and down. Mr. Meng is a professor at Peking University and holds a concurrent course at Tsinghua University, about 34-5 years old. He only taught a literary psychology, in fact, aesthetics. This is an elective. I chose this course, listened carefully for a year. At that time, I felt that this course was extraordinary and was one of the courses I was most satisfied with. Compared with those taught by foreign professors from Britain, the United States, France, Germany and other countries, the class was so good that it could not be compared. Mr. Zhu is not the kind of eloquent person, his eloquence is not good, talk about a blue flavor of Anhui Mandarin, does not sound “beauty ”. He did not seem to be an orator, he never looked at the lecture, turned his eyes up, and looked as though he was on a ceiling or somewhere on a window. However, there is no nonsense, every word is clear. He introduced the popular theory of literature and art in various Western countries