今年八月五日,是革命导师恩格斯逝世九十周年纪念日,这个日子不禁使我们想起恩格斯写给报刊编辑的几封信。它们记录了作为新闻工作者的恩格斯,从业余报刊通讯员到党的报刊指导者的成长过程。恩格斯不到十八岁,就开始在报刊上发表作品,到他二十二岁时,他的笔名奥斯渥特已经蜚声报界,一些报刊的编辑纷纷向他约稿。这时,他突然停止了写稿。在致《德国年鉴》杂志主编卢格的信里,他写道:“我决定在一段时间里完全放弃写作活动,而更多地进行学习。”恩格斯很了解自己:中学没有读完,更没有博士文凭,要取得谈论哲学和进一步进行新 August 5 this year marks the 90th anniversary of the death of revolutionary mentor Engels, reminding us of several letters that Engels wrote to newspaper editors. They document the growth of Engels, a journalist, from the amateur press correspondent to the party’s newspaper director. When Engels was eighteen, he began publishing works in newspapers and magazines. By the age of twenty-two, Engels, whose pen name was entertained, had made a name for himself in the press, and editors of some newspapers and magazines made his appointment. At this moment, he suddenly stopped writing. In a letter to Lange, chief editor of the German Yearbook, he wrote: “I decided to abandon my writing activities altogether for a while and study more.” Engels knows himself well: there is no reading in high school, Diploma, to get to talk about philosophy and further to new